Identifier: wildernesshunter00roosev (find matches)
Title: The wilderness hunter; an account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound and rifle
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Gebbie and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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many years ago,a negro who was one of a gang engaged in build-ing a railroad through low and wet groimd waswaylaid and killed by a cougar late one night ashe was walking alone through the swamp. I knew two men in Missoula who were once at-tacked by cougars in a very curious manner. Itwas in January, and they were walking homethrough the snow after a hunt, each carrying onhis back the saddle, haimches, and hide of a deerhe had slain. Just at dusk, as they were passingthrough a narrow ravine, the man in front heardhis partner utter a sudden loud call for help.Turning, he was dumbfoimded to see the manlying on his face in the snow, with a cougar whichhad evidently just knocked him down standingover him, grasping the deer meat; while anothercougar was galloping up to assist. Swinging hisrifle round he shot the first one in the brain, andit dropped motionless, whereat the second halted,wheeled, and bounded into the woods. His com- Adventurg with a Cougar. .ttisjs^i!;) o i\iiui s^wAnwjbi-.
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J The Cougar 141 panion was not in the least hurt or even fright-ened, though greatly amazed. The cougars werenot full grown, but young of the year. Now in this case I do not believe the beastshad any real intention of attacking the men.They were yoimg animals—bold, stupid, and veryhungry. The smell of the raw meat excited thembeyond control, and they probably could notmake out clearly what the men were, as theywalked bent under their burdens, with the deer-skins on their backs. Evidently the cougars wereonly trying to get at the venison. In 1886, a cougar killed an Indian near Flat-head Lake, Two Indians were hunting togetheron horseback when they came on the cougar. Itfell at once to their shots, and they dismoimtedand ran towards it. Just as they reached it itcame to, and seized one, killing him instantlywith a couple of savage bites in the throat andchest; it then raced after the other, and, as hesprung on his horse, struck him across the but-tocks, inflicting a deep but not dan

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