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tree which was perhaps 40 yds from where the Elk were lying! As I reached the tree, and took position beside it, the animals began to get up, and a beautiful sight I can assure you was that band of 20 Elk, as large as small horses, some of them with antlers 6 or 8 feet about their heads. Without a very long delay or hesitation I fired at what I fancied to be the fattest buck and he fell after walking a few steps! The remainder of the Band were terribly frightened and pitched down the mountain headlong, and I could hear them running through the brush and breaking the dry limbs for a half mile or more. They run off in the direction Lount? had gone and passed very near him but they were so badly frightened that he failed to obtain a shot at them & soon came up where I was and in a short time the remainder of the company came up, and our Elk was butchered and a good portion of it put in our packs which added some what to the