CHAPTER VII

MOUNTAIN GAME; THE WHITE GOAT

A Trip to the Big Hole Basin--Incidents of Travel with a Wagon--Camp Among the Mountains--A Trip on Foot After Goats--Spruce Grouse--Lying Out at Night--A Climb over the High Peaks--Two Goats Shot--Weary Tramp Back--A Hunt in the Kootenai Country--Hard Climbing Among the Wooded Mountains--Goat Shot on Brink of Chasm--Ptarmigan for Supper--Goat Hunting Very Hard Work--Ways and Habits of the Goats--Not much Decrease in Numbers