Diary, 1911, of trip to Idaho and Wyoming
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Jackson March 17. 1911 Drove down 6 Leeks and 6 sweet places below. √ About Leeks and just below where Jim Lewis was feeding we estimated from 600 to 650 elk. In one bunch of 27 we 6 bulls. In a bunch of 100 were 15 bulls. In a bunch of 650 we counted 20 calves. Jim Lewis estimated that there were 200 dead calves from these bunches now aggregating about 600, and that their were at least 1000 originally before so many of the animals went up on the bare hills. Jim Lewis and W[ilson] both thought that only 10 % of the calves are now living, and that more would die. There are only a few spike bucks in the herds (the young flank year) indicating a high mortality for the preceding winter. Dope Robertson - Place at the lower end of the valley. He said he