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Show I I t !- ' . y ' i.- v" - ! n j f - - ' , ' . ' ' L- 1 1. .wJ 1 i Lid " COLBY, E!s Horn Basin. "Wy., Feb. 15 "She Is the youngest hunter of big rrr.e in t!-e f.Ure "SVtst,"' raid 'T. "i'.o l.::i" CoJy, as he Introduced liit'.e Kuty Howe to a party of hia Eastern and Erlilih friends who had gathered in the reception room of the Hotel Irma, at Cody a few days ago." IT; s r.y Is Jut 14 years oli, tut as a hunter of t!j fame pe takp ranlt with any man, except the professional nimrod, and her fame haa tpread from one end of the E!g Horn mountains to the other. Mounted on her eure-footi Vestera horse and armed with a .2. 3 Savage aaddle-elzed rifle, the little lady roams the mountains at will, and never returns to her home In 'Cody empty-handed. empty-handed. Every old g-ulde and hunter In the Big Horn country knows her- by edrht. and considers It an honor to ac-. company her on a hunt. In one day, during the season Just passed. Miss Ruby succeeded In killing two elk and a deer a feat unequaled -by any hunter in the Big Horn during the year. Borne time ago, while hunting In the mountains. Mis Kuby came unexpectedly unexpect-edly upon a mountain lion. The animal was scarcely more than thirty feet distant, dis-tant, and seemed undecided whether to stay and fight or to run away. The girl was entirely alone, but nothing daunted, reached down and picking up & stone hurled tt straight t the tawny beast. With a sniffle of terror, the lion turned O I'.. ' : 7 I . a ': O fourtv n-yar-C.l "... ' T t' L ' ) Q v ::i tit. 1 f i e:.t.:-e " y ,) 0 root T ov-r the I '.c-jr.'.a!-s, a, i-'t O ft t'a very t.. .'t of the r' S O hur.ur.g t:j gai..e, rftjrnlr. home c or.'y. vi hen driven ty right. I .. O 0 U an alhlete, has a quick, ' stea'y () I aim,, and is eoni: 'ore.1 the eqj&l of Q ary r.r, Tnai or female, la the Q basin. At tie aame time she la O 0 tr'sh.t Btir.t. is. neat and rains- O taking at home, and is a ffneral O - favorite with alL - O 00000000000 0.0 OOOO and fied. and the girl sat down and laughed at the spectacle of a mountain lion bMr? afraid of a rock In the hands I of a littie gii L. Last fall, aroomranled by Mrs. Clyde Hoffman, wf-.l known a hurter. Miss Ruby paed many we- ks in the moun-' moun-' tains. Ouen the two wt :k.ed twenty-five miles per day through the canyons and over the mountains, near the very crest of the divide, where eternal snow ls; many miles from human habitation; the home of countless deer. elk. mountalrf lion and timber wolves; making camp at night If convenient, camping in the woods and enow If necessary. On each return trip to Cody the packhorse was loaded down with the pelts of the game killed. It was while on this hunt that Miss Ruby made her record of two elk and one deer in a single day. Buffalo Bill says, the little girl will some day be the crack shot of the world, although at present she can shoot the head off of a pheasant time after time without a failure. |
