GLACIER, once the favorite hunting ground of the
Blackfeet and now for fifteen years strictly preserved, has a large and
growing population of creatures of the wild. Its rocks and precipices
fit it especially to be the home of the Rocky Mountain sheep and the
mountain goat.
Both of these large and hardy climbers are found in
Glacier in great numbers. They constitute a familiar sight in many of
the places most frequented by tourists.
Trout fishing is particularly fine. The trout are of
half a dozen western varieties, of which perhaps the cutthroat is the
most common. In Lake St. Mary the Mackinaw is caught up to twenty pounds
in weight.
So widely are they distributed that it is difficult
to name lakes of special fishing importance.
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