Show r Utah's Famous Sportsman K cougars ars and mixing with such c celebrities as Theodore Roosevelt Grey and Fred Stone is all the s same me in a nail t days day's g work to H Jim Owens one of Utah's best known trappers and guides Results of a 3 days day's hunt adorn the wall of Jims domicile in southern south south- ern em Utah as ns revealed in this tills shot at the outdoor expert as he be stands surrounded by his canine associates I 2 t Ii 1 1 ti C. s 's 4 L. L s j J. J r j 4 t j jI I ii I 4 I Adventures After Game Make l Material l for Famous Fa Fa- Fa- Fa inous V Writers i I Till T OWENS S famous hunter Jur cJ fi and guide of KaIbab forest ha hag killed between and mountain lions In what hat 1 Is called ailed tho the Arizona strip according to George E. E Holman of or the tho United States biological survey Besides the tho number ho has haJ killed himself Owens has acted as guide to nu numerous nu- nu merOU hunters who have secured a goodly supply of or tho the cougars whose hides now adorn the tho dens ens of oC big l game hunters throughout the United States D of StoneR The adventures of oC Owens In hunting the tho cougar and also as a plainsman before he took up his residence In Kaibab forest would fill many ninny a book and In fact hl his j I adventures have havo been the basis of or books by such famous authors as Rex B Beach ach and Zano Zana Grey for both of or whom l he acted a as guide ulde in in that wild se section Uon of oC tho country One Ono of or Theodore Roosevelt's fa famous famous ta- ta mountain lion hunts was wass s st oil ell with Owens as tho guide but bul probably the most famous hunt from a literary standpoint was the theone theone theone one he sta staged ed for Fred Stone al almost al- al most as aa famous an outdoor man as asan asan an n actor and nd and Rex Beach Roach The adventures of or the party were wc-e described b by Beach Bench In ill his In InImical Inimical In- In style In On the Trail of the Cowardly Cougar Material for tor numerous books of or Zano Zane Grey were t taken from the tho life of ot Owens That authors author's The Tile Lost St of oC the tho Plainsmen although it was concerning Buffalo Jones took in Ln a considerable amount of or Owens Owen's career as the tho latter was In tho party with Grey and Jones on the tho hunting trip when the author se secured so- so cured tho tim material for tor his book ok However It is 11 said Owens spent I much time with Gre Grey when the latter lat ter was securing his data for The Tile Heritage of tho Desert and The I Riders lUders of or the Purple Sage Owens first firt camo came in tho the Kaibab forest section with Buffalo BurC Jones Jonea when the two of them Imported a herd of or buffalo into that section The remnant cf ot the herd are yet ct to tobe tobe tobe be seen In valley In III slap A According to Mr Holman Owens Is past 70 now and Is allowing a J. J couple of or his young assistants to todo todo todo do most of or the hard work of or guidInG guiding guiding guid guid- ing hunters while he ho acts as 31 adviser ad ad- iser and sticks around the camps The Thc Kaibab forest section which is Owens Owen's hangout Is being opened to travel from Salt lit Lake by bythe bythe bythe the stage line which will win be he operated operated oper opec by C. C C G. G Parry of ot this city Leaving Lund station on the Salt Lake lAko railway ho he will make one ono trip tripa a week over the Kaibab plate plateau u to the north rim of or the Grand canyon canon allowing visitors from here to visit this most wonderful portion of or the tho countr country I i |