United States or Botswana ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
MONTANA: In 1911 Governor Norris, Senator Cone and the legislature of Montana, at the solicitation of W.R. Felton, L.A. Huffman and others, created the SNOW CREEK GAME PRESERVE, fronting for ten miles on the Missouri River, in the northern side of Dawson County. It is a magnificent tract of bad-lands, very deeply eroded and carved, and highly picturesque.
There's some things it's just as well they don't happen too frequent, and getting lost and afoot in the Bad-lands is one. "That afternoon I dragged myself up to the edge of a deep coulee and looked over to see if there was any way of getting down. There was a bright green streak down there that couldn't mean nothing but water, at that time of year; this was last fall.
The number of sportsmen who have hunted and killed this fine animal in its own wild and picturesque bad-lands is indeed quite small. It has been four-fifths exterminated by the resident hunter and ranchman, and to-day is found in the Rocky Mountain region most sparingly.
The sight stuck persistently and unpleasantly in his memory. "Yuh know, he might be hurt," he began tentatively when they had ridden slowly a hundred yards or so. "He might. But he ain't. He's up to some game again, and he wouldn't like anything better than to have us ride down there and feel his bones. If you'd been along, that day in the Bad-lands, you'd know the kind of bluff he can put up.
There could be no resistance. Seth had the drop on him. "I'll go," he said sullenly. At daylight the truth was known. The greatest Indian rising of two decades had begun. The Bad-Lands had entered upon a period of slaughter, of wanton massacre, which was to form one of the bloodiest pages in the history of Indian warfare.
However, the chorus, bellowed shamelessly by Jack, was this: "Down in the Bad-lands, hear that awful sound. Andy Green is there a-weeping "
I desire to point out that between Bangor and San Diego and from Key West to Bellingham, our country contains millions of acres of wild, practically uninhabited forests, rough foot-hills, bad-lands and mountains that could produce two million deer each year, without deducting $50,000 a year from the wealth of the country.
Word Of The Day