The chase of the prongbuck has always been to me very attractive, but especially so when carried on by coursing it with greyhounds.
Coursing the Prongbuck The prongbuck is the most characteristic and distinctive of American game animals.
In all its ways and habits the prongbuck differs as much from deer and elk as from goat and sheep.
We would get them in behind the horses and creep cautiously along, trying to find some solitary prongbuck in a suitable place, where we could bring up the dogs from behind a hillock, and give them a fair start after it.
Usually we failed to get the dogs near enough for a good start; and in most cases their chases after unwounded prongbuck resulted in the quarry running clean away from them.
When I first fired, the prongbuck had already been shot at and was in full flight.
When out on the great plains, where the cattle range freely in the summer, or when visiting the line camps, or any ranch on the heads of the longer creeks, the prongbuck furnishes our fresh meat.
Footnote 5: The prongbuck (Antilocapra americana) is not a true antelope, though in outward appearance it resembles a large gazelle.
Upon the whole, therefore, we may regard the elephantine Sivatherium as being most nearly allied to the Prongbuck of Western America, and thus as belonging to the family of the Antelopes.
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