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YELLOWSTONE
YELLOWSTONE'S BUFFALO HERD IN FULL STAMPEDE IS A THRILLING SIGHT
Copyright by J.E. Haynes, St. Paul
UNLIKE THE GRIZZLY, THE BLACK BEAR CLIMBS TREES QUICKLY AND EASILY
Photograph by Edward S. Curtis
ANIMALS REALLY AT HOME
VERY different, indeed, from the beasts of the after-dinner story and the literature of adventure are the wild animals of the Yellowstone. Never shot at, never pursued, they are comparatively as fearless as song birds nestling in the homestead trees.
Wilderness bears cross the trail without haste a few yards ahead of the solitary passer-by, and his accustomed horses jog on undisturbed. Deer by scores lift their antlered heads above near thickets to watch his passing. Elk scarcely slow their cropping of forest grasses. Even the occasional moose, straying far from his southern wilderness, scarcely quickens his trot. Herds of antelope on near-by hills watch but hold their own.
Only the grizzly and the mountain sheep, besides the predatory beasts, still hide in the fastnesses. But even the grizzly now comes to the bear feeding ground and the mountain sheep loses fear and joins the others in winters of heavy snow when park rangers scatter hay by the roadside.
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