Musk-ox heads owned by, 100.
Pine, patches of, in Land of Little Sticks, 36.
Platte River, buffaloes on tributaries of, 125-126.
Prairie bison (_Bos bison typicus_), 165.
Protection, government, of musk-oxen, 51.
Provision question in musk-ox hunting, 36-38.
Provisions in Barren Grounds, 62-63.
Rae, J., Hudson’s Bay Company factor, 99.
Railroads, effect of, on buffaloes, 113-116.
Ram seen at Livingston, Mont., 171-173, 183-184.
“Records of Big Game,” R. Ward’s, 104, 165, 223-224, 274.
Red Desert Country, buffaloes in, 126.
Red River, buffaloes on the, 162.
Red River half-breeds, buffalo hunts of, 117, 154-155.
Rings on rams’ horns, 208 _n._
Robinson, John (“Uncle Jack Robinson”), 124.
Rocky Mountain goat [_Haplocerus montanus_ or _Oreamnus montanus_],
231, 259, 274.
_See_ White goat.
Rocky Mountain sheep [_Ovis canadensis typica_], 223, 259.
“Royal Natural History, The,” Lydekker’s, 246, 247.
Rubbing-stones, buffaloes’, 131, 163.
_Rupicapra americana_, white goat termed, 259.
Rutting season, buffaloes’, 131-132.
Mountain sheep’s, 184, 208.
Saddleback sheep [_Ovis fannini_], 181-182, 213.
Salt Lake Valley, buffaloes in, 124.
Salvatierra, Padre de, 250.
Saw Tooth Range, white goat in, 247.
Schwatka, Frederick, 60, 61, 93.
Serows, Rocky Mountain goat member of same group as, 274.
Sheep. _See_ Mountain sheep.
Shoshone Indians, sheep-hunting on horses by, 193.
Siberia, fossil remains of musk-oxen found in, 85.
Skulls of musk-oxen, 75-76, 80, 82, 83.
Slaughter of buffaloes in America, 114-119.
Sledge, description of, in Barren Ground outfit, 40-41.
Sledge-dogs, methods of harnessing, 60-61.
Scarcity of, in North, 38-39.
Snowfall in Barren Grounds, 35.
Snows, effect on buffaloes, 124, 137.
Snow-shoes, Barren Ground, 35.
Spitzbergen, musk-oxen unknown in, 93.
Stone, Andrew J., report as to western range of musk-oxen, 86-93.
Stouch, Major G. W. II., 143.
Stringer, Rev. I. O., 89, 90.
Strouds, 53, 54.
“Surround” method of hunting buffalo, 150-153.
Sweetwater River, buffaloes on, 126.
Tail, lack of, in mountain sheep, 182.
Tea an essential in Barren Ground outfit, 39-40.
Tennessee River southern boundary of buffalo range, 121.
Tepee in Barren Ground outfit, 55, 57, 64.
Teton Range, sheep-hunting in, 209-222.
Tibet, sheep found in, 182.
White goat in, 239.
Tobacco, necessity of, in Barren Ground outfit, 39-40.
Tooyogmioot Indians, 90.
Tracks made by white goat, 239-240.
Travelling, methods of, in Barren Ground hunting, 62-63.
Trees, absence of, from Barren Grounds, 35-36.
“Tripping” snow-shoes, 35.
_Vaches_ (_vaches sauvages_), 120.
Virginia, domestication of buffaloes in, 147.
“Voyage to Georgia,” Moore’s, 121.
Ward, Rowland, 79.
“Records of Big Game” by, cited, 104, 165, 223, 274.
Washakie Needle, mountain sheep on the, 186-196.
Washington (state), white goat found in, 250.
White goat [_Oreamnus montanus_], 227-273.
Color, 242-243, 274.
Description, 239-242.
Food, 249.
Habitat, 231, 245-251.
Hair, 257.
Height, 274.
Hide, 241.
Horns, 258.
Hostility to sheep, 233-237, 245-246.
Immigration from Asia, 232-233, 245-246.
Kids, 271.
Lewis’s error about, 251, 255-260.
Method of hunting, 260.
Origin, 232-233.
Relationship to chamois, 232.
Sheep and, 233-237, 245-246.
Size, 242.
Species, 232, 259.
Specimens (live), 231, 237-238.
Track made by, 239-240.
Various Latin names for, 259.
Weight, 241, 274.
Whitney, Casper, musk-ox head taken by, 100.
Whitney, William C., live musk-ox bought by, 103.
Wild cows, elk called, 120.
Wood bison [_Bos bison athabascæ_], 117, 123, 165.
Wool of musk-ox, 97-98, 104-105.
Wycliff, Robert, 147, 148, 149.
Wyoming, bison horns from, 166.
Mountain sheep in, 185, 225, 226.
White goat not found in, 245, 248.
Yancey, John, 252.
Yellowstone Park, bison horns from, 166.
Buffaloes in, 117-118.
Game in, 273.
Yoke, breaking buffaloes to the, 149.
Young, of buffaloes, 132-135, 146-147.
Of mountain sheep, 208-222.
Of musk-oxen, 100, 103.
Of white goat, 271.
Zoölogical gardens, musk-oxen in, 103.
Zoölogical Gardens, Philadelphia, white goat in, 231, 237-238.
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