 | United States. Census Office. 11th census, 1890 - Alaska - 1893 - 482 pages
...slaughtered for their hides when driven down to the shore by heavy and long-continued snows. The deer call is made from a blade of grass placed between two strips of wood, and is a very clever imitation of the cry of a deer in the rutting seaeon. The wolves play great havoc... | |
 | United States. Census Office - Alaska - 1893 - 462 pages
...slaughtered for their hides when driven down to the shore by heavy and long-continued snows. The deer call is made from a blade of grass placed between two strips of wood, and is a very clever imitation of the cry of a deer in the rutting season. The wolves play great havoc... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - Alaska - 1897 - 498 pages
...a term of years. Unless Congress authorizes this the extinction of the species will not be far off. They are hunted, in the rutting season, by a call...exist in such numbers among so many ruthless enemies. Bald and gray eagles are numerous throughout Southeast Alaska, and are also found, to some extent,... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - Alaska - 1897 - 500 pages
...a term of years. Unless Congress authorizes this the extinction of the species will not be far off. They are hunted, in the rutting season, by a call...strips of wood, which produces a very clever imitation CATCHING HUMMING BIRDS. 263 of the cry of the deer. This call leads them to the ambushed hunter ; and... | |
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... Here they are waylaid by the natives and slaughtered in great numbers for their hides. Deer forms one of the main food supplies of Alaska, and an effort is being made to make their killing unlawful for a term of years. Unless Congress authorizes this... 