Rocky Mountain sheep

On our further progress up the river, we saw, for the first time, the animal known by the name of the bighorn, or the Rocky Mountain sheep, the Ovis montana of the zoologists.

These Rocky Mountain sheep are the wildest on earth, and seldom can man come near enough to get snapshots as you did to-day.

The lofty rocks are the natural home of the celebrated Rocky Mountain sheep, or bighorn.

A bighorn’s a Rocky Mountain sheep, the old ram of the flock, with horns fifty inches long that curl around in a circle, and he’s the handsomest, finest, proudest lookin’ critter God Almighty ever made.

There is generally a pair of eagles who breed there, and an occasional Rocky Mountain sheep may be seen springing along its terraces.