Diary, 1911, of trip to Wyoming
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Workmen in the Hoback Basin Is in favor of the Gros Ventre Regions - to be under Federal control Mule Deer winter in Hoback valley, in good shape. Sheep & killed on Cliff Creek East fall. Some on Landhook Mt., seen sheep tracks on Shovel Creek and Toward Granite Creek Wolves kill some elk but do not bother domestic stock here A few moose in Hoback Basin One seen near Plow East A few antelope come in in Spring but are seldom seen again until fall. Domestic Sheep are coming in to Cliff Creek and are over-racing the deserted bands - the summits of Hoback basin on the South. May 14. Jackson Mr. Newell and I took trip up on the hills east of town. Saw a bunch of about 40 elk which were feeding at the edge of the snow, which covered all the country, much of the rim of the Gros Ventre foothills excepting some south hillsides. The elk did not seem to be in very good shape but were strong. They now become shy and it is not easy to get near them. We found a bighorn Sheep which had been killed by wolves. Returning we saw a skull of a Mountain Sheep about many years old. A very large bull elk was lying at the foot of a cliff and seemed to have been shot but its decomposed condition made it impossible to prove this. It seems that the animal was still warm San Gader Eagle with a Steel Fork on one foot.