The old world term elk was applied by the English settlers, probably in Virginia, to the wapiti deer, an animal very closely related to the red deer of Europe.
The chances for the wapiti and elk and the western mule and black-tail deer are brighter, provided that we move promptly for their protection.
An animal like the moose or the wapiti represents a line of unbroken descent of vast antiquity, and the destruction of the finest members of the race to decorate a hallway cannot be too strongly condemned.
As soon asWapiti saw Miranda with Dave, he comprehended that the stranger was not a foe.
From behind the cabin came Wapiti the buck, or perhaps a younger Wapiti, on whom the spirit of his sire had descended in double portion.
As for the black-and-white cow, she seemed to admire Wapiti greatly, though he met her admiration with the most lofty indifference.
To Wapiti a stranger at the cabin, where such visitants were unheard of, must needs be an enemy, or at least a suspect.
With the two steers, Star and Bright, Wapiti was not on very good terms.
Facing the defiant Wapiti at a distance of five or six paces, he rested the butt of his rifle on his toe and sent a mellow, resonant heigh-lo, heigh-lo!
The wapiti or red deer (for which the common Amerindian name in the north was Waskesiu) seldom ranged farther north than the vicinity of Lake Winnipeg.
Elk" in the Canadian Dominion is misapplied to the great Wapiti red deer.
When Canada proper was first discovered, the wapiti red deer was still found in the basin of the St. Lawrence; it has long since been extinct.
Near it were plenty of bushes, and a level tract which had been a beaver meadow, and was thickly covered with grass, as he could see where the wapiti had scratched away the snow to get at it.
Eight more wapiti were killed during the week, and fourteen smaller deer.
In the winter the animals come down to the shelter of the forests and valleys, and they can be shot in numbers; especially as the Indians in their snow-shoes can get along almost as quickly as the wapiti can plough through the snow.
No more wapiti came up, but black and white tail deer were occasionally shot, and five or six big-horn sheep also fell to their rifles.
The herd could not have been far from that crest or the boy would not have seen the antler over it, and the chief is not likely to miss a wapiti at a hundred yards.
Wapiti flesh ain't bad, but we should get dog-goned tired of it arter a bit.
A few minutes later there was a dull trampling sound, and almost directly afterwards a herd of wapiti came along at a heavy trot, ploughing their way but slowly through the snow.
Atkinson told us what a good time he had with you, but we were a trifle astonished to see the fine wapiti head he brought back with him.
There were survey maps, tassels of oats, and a great Wapiti head upon the wall, while Alton himself lay almost full length in a deerhide chair.
There is a lake at Somasco where you can see the white peaks lie shining, and the big Wapiti come down to drink," he said.
Ripping sport--shot a moose and two wapiti this morning.
A bear was an occasional amusement; a wapiti was a constant necessity; but the only wild animal dangerous to man was a rattlesnake or a skunk.
The Geysers were an old story; the Snake River posed no vital statistics except in its fordings; even the Tetons were as calm as they were lovely; while the wapiti and bear, innocent of strikes and corners, laid no traps.
At the present moment the great herds of caribou are being butchered, as in the past the great herds of bison and wapiti have been butchered.
The wapiti was plainly coming towards them, and they could now distinguish the wolves following upon his heels, strung out over the prairie like a pack of hounds.
A heavy plash followed, and for some seconds both wapiti and wolverene were lost under the water.
The wapiti travel about in small herds, rarely exceeding fifty, but often of only six or seven.
On the other hand, wapiti do not go farther north than about the fifty-seventh parallel of latitude, and then they are not in their favourite habitat, which is properly the temperate zone.
What now surprised our voyageurs was, their finding that the wapiti had been wounded before encountering either the wolves, wolverene, or themselves.
When the wind was favourable they made good progress, using the skin of the wapiti for a sail.
In my opinion," continued Lucien, "the wapiti is the noblest of all the deer kind.
THE wapitiwas carefully skinned, and the skin spread out to dry.
Its colour during the summer is of a reddish brown, hence the name red deer; but, indeed, the reddish tint upon the wapiti is deeper and richer than that of its European cousin.
The wapiti utters a whistling sound, that can be heard far off, and often guides the hunter to the right spot.
The wapiti at one time ranged over a large part of the continent of North America.
With this race is provisionally associated the wapiti from Krasnoyarsk, although it is added that the latter may be distinct.
From wapiti the hinds of these deer are distinguishable at a glance by their red coats and the larger amount of white and black on the sides of the rump-patch as well as by the longer tail.
Everything seemed to have gone wrong, first my accident, then Smith's, and now a wounded wapiti that we might never find.
He had also seen the track of a big bull wapiti and a fresh bear track, which news cheered us all up.
We accordingly sent Thomson and Lansdown back to Keogh Lake with the wapiti head and one pack.
I had to accept this story, improbable as it was, for there was no mistaking a great bull wapiti for a small deer.
The country looked more promising for game, for we came across many well-beaten wapiti tracks and at least two fresh tracks of good bulls.
I could only guess where the body was, but fortunately the body of a wapiti is a pretty big mark.
I fear even a wapiti would not have been sacred, but in the wapiti country, we always tied him up in camp.
The lake was looking perfect as we turned our backs on it, leaving the game country and all the chances of another wapiti behind.
There were a few traces of blood, but they were all high up on the bushes, and from the pace the wapiti was travelling, it was evident he was none the worse for the light bullet of Smith's Winchester rifle.
Looking me over he said, "You are too stout for goat," which I rather felt to be true, though the trip after wapiti had fined me down considerably.
Farther up, the wind walked on the dry leaves with a sound like a thousand wapiti trooping down the mountain.
As he spoke, he pointed to the moose and wapiti trooping down the shallow hills to the watering-places.
The wapiti and the Virginia deer can be raised successfully and cheaply under many different conditions of food and climate.
In Europe it has been successfully crossed with Altai wapiti and the red deer, and in both instances the offspring were superior in size and general stamina to the native stock.
For the practical purposes of this bulletin all the forms of the wapiti are treated as a single species.
The extermination of the wapiti began with the settlement of the American colonies.
The people of the state of Washington have good reason to rejoice in the fact that their most highly-prized scenic wonderland, and the last survivors of the wapiti in that state, are now preserved for all coming time.
In addition to the preservation of the forests, it was greatly desired that the remnant bands of Olympic wapiti (described as Cervus roosevelti) should be perpetuated.
A remarkable feature of the wapiti is that the horns differ in form almost as greatly as do those of the branches of trees, no two specimens being found with them exactly alike.
The wapiti is indeed a grand animal, growing to the height of the tallest ox, and endowed with wonderful activity, as well as power.
We made arrangements to go with a number of the Lolos to a spot fifteen miles away on the Chung-tien road to hunt wapiti (probably Cervus macneilli) which the natives call maloo.
Our American wapiti, or elk, is a migrant from Asia by way of the Bering Strait and is probably a relative of the wapitiwhich is found in Central Asia, China, Manchuria and Korea.
They told us that serow and muntjac were abundant and that wapiti were sometimes found on the mountains several miles to the northward.
I went out with the hunters at dawn but saw nothing except an old wapiti track and a little sign.
We were greatly disappointed, for we had brilliant prospects of good wapiti shooting but without either men or dogs and in an unknown country there was little possibility of successful still hunting.
To the north we could see heavily wooded mountain slopes interspersed with open parklike meadows--splendid wapiti country.
The lyre-horned waterbucks had the stately port of wapiti bulls.
When first seen, both it and the wapiti were beyond the reach of their rifles; and the hunters, surprised by such an unexpected apparition, had suddenly halted.
The wapiti was carefully skinned, and the skin spread out to dry.
But before the dog had made three lengths of himself into the thicket, a loud snort was heard, followed by a struggle and the stamping of hoofs, and the next moment the wapiti came crashing through the bushes.
Then he took them to the cave in which puma, bear, and wapiti skins were piled, together with a few stores and the kits of travellers who had left their belongings in Boldrick's keeping till they should come again.
At present the wapiti is of all wild game that which is most likely to fall a victim to the grisly, when the big bear is in the mood to turn hunter.
However, there are certainly two very distinct types, which differ almost as widely from each other as a wapiti does from a mule deer, and which exist in the same localities in most heavily timbered portions of the Rockies.
I refused the shot, as we had meat of the finest quality that would keep for a week, and to kill another wapiti would be mere waste of life.
Somehow or other I pulled the trigger; a cloud of dust suddenly arose from the spot where the three stags had disappeared, and I felt sure that the wapiti was down.
I ran forward towards the spot, and within 15 paces of me I saw a wapiti stag caught by the horns; these were completely entangled among the stems of the thickly growing trees, and the splendid beast was taken prisoner.
Even this will alter its form against the bones of a buffalo, but either of the above will go clean through a wapiti stag, and would kill another beyond it should the rifle be '577 fired with 6 drams of powder.
As we shall return to the Big Horn range when treating upon the habits of wapiti and other animals, I shall now refer to the Indian bears, and commence with the most spiteful of the species, Ursus labiatus.
I halted immediately, and in a few seconds three splendid wapiti stags broke covert about 100 yards before me, and at full gallop passed across the open ground by which I was descending.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wapiti" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
