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Show VANISHED WITH THE BUFFALO Few Left of the Pronghorn Antelope, That Once Roamed the Plains in Vast Numbers. Next to the buffalo, the most numerous nu-merous animal in the United States not more than 50 years ago was the pronghorn antelope. About half the size of a deer, but a bit more eom-pactly eom-pactly built, it ranged the plains from the Missouri river westward to the i'acilic In places. Antelopes were dry-country animals, and were always found wherever sagebrush, bunch grass and the short, curly buffalo grass existed. Their favorite fa-vorite range was the plains country just east of 1 lie Itocky mountains, where they migrated with the seasons, from Alberta to Mexico, and between the Rooky and the west coast ranges from the Big Bend of the Columbia in Washington, southward to the Gulf Pf California and the Mexican west const. It was the best runner of all the plains animals, and had endurance for long-distance running, being well able to lake care of Itself when in danger. dan-ger. Its meat is not very attractive to the white man's palate, being stringy, tough and dry, and having somewhat , the taste of goat meal. Some are still j found, but only in widely scattered i areas. |