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Journal of Mammalogy, "Reprinted from Journal of Mammalogy Vol. 9, No. 1, February, 1928 pp 1-9." Pamphlet, 9 pages.
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In good condition. Cream paper pamphlet has several small chips and tears and light creasing along edges. Staple bound. Pages lightly browned with age but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. George Bird Grinnell (1849 - 1938), a Yale-educated zoologist, was a pioneering American conservationist, anthropologist, and naturalist. He founded the Audubon Society and co-founded the Boone and Crockett Club with Theodore Roosevelt, promoting responsible hunting and wildlife preservation. As editor of Forest and Stream, Grinnell played a pivotal role in raising public awareness about conservation issues and advocating for the protection of species like bison, moose, and elk, contributing significantly to the creation of national parks and modern conservation policies in the United States.[From first page] Here are certain odds and ends of information assembled from various scattered sources as to the former eastern range of the wild sheep, and a little personal testimony about its habits as seen and heard of forty or forty-five years ago. Until the settlement of the western country the sheep occupied the high plateaus west of the Missouri River, and the mountain country of the Continental Divide west almost to the Pacific, south into Mexico, and north into Alaska. In early times sheep were abundant on parts of the northwestern plains from the international boundary south along the Missouri River and its western tributaries as far south as the White River. The Yellowstone and the Little Missouri Rivers were favorite ranges, as were also occasional suitable localities on the Platte River. Such places were always near rough, broken country to which the animals might retreat if alarmed. I do not think sheep were ever found very far south of the Platte on the plains, for in that region buttes are not many; but back nearer to the mountains they were abundant. I have not heard of them on the plains of western Canada away from the mountains, because, as I suppose, buttes and rough bad lands do not often occur there. It is altogether certain that in old times the wild sheep were not confined to what we call mountains, but in many parts of their range lived in a country not very different from that then commonly occupied by the mule deer - that is to say, about and near buttes, rough bad lands or low rocky hills - and were often seen feeding out on the level prairie at considerable distances from the heights. . .