Wild Animals at Home

(a) The Whistler watching me from the rocks (b) A young Whistler 9 Red Fox 32 Foxes quarrelling 33 Beaver 48 Mule-deer 49 Blacktail Family 60 Blacktail mother with her twins 61 A young investigator among the Deer at Fort Yellowstone 64 Elk in Wyoming 65 Elk on the Yellowstone in Winter 68 The first shots at the Hoodoo Cow 69 The last shots at the Hoodoo Cow 76 Elk on the Yellowstone 77 Moose—The Widow 80 Buffalo groups 81 Near Yellowstone Gate 84 Mountain Sheep on Mt. Evarts 85 Track record of Bobcat's adventure with a Skunk 98 The six chapters of the Bobcat's adventure 102 My tame Skunks 103 Red-squirrel storing mushrooms for winter use 134 Chink stalking the Picket-pin 135 The Snowshoe Hare is a cross between a Rabbit and a Snowdrift 150 The Cottontail freezing 151 The Baby Cottontail that rode twenty miles in my hat 162 Snowshoe Rabbits dancing in the light of the lantern 163 Snowshoe Rabbits fascinated by the lantern 170 The Ghost Rabbit 171 The Coney or Calling Hare 178 The Coney barns full of hay stored for winter use 179 (a) Tracks of Deer escaping and (b) Tracks of Mountain Lion in pursuit 186 The Mountain Lion sneaking around us as we sleep 187 Sketch of the Bear Family as made on the spot 198 Two pages from my journal in the garbage heap 199 While I sketched the Bears, a brother camera-hunter was stalking me without my knowledge 206 One meets the Bears at nearly every turn in the woods 207 The shyer ones take to a tree, if one comes too near 210 Clifford B. Harmon feeding a Bear 211 The Bears at feeding time 218 (a) Tom Newcomb pointing out the bear's mark, (b) E. T. Seton feeding a Bear 219 Johnnie Bear: his sins and his troubles 222 Johnnie happy at last 223 I The Cute Coyote I The Cute Coyote AN EXEMPLARY LITTLE BEAST, MY FRIEND THE COYOTE If you draw a line around the region that is, or was, known as the Wild West, you will find that you have exactly outlined the kingdom of the Coyote. He is even yet found in every part of it, but, unlike his big brother the Wolf, he never frequented the region known as Eastern America. This is one of the few wild creatures that you can see…