. The passing of the old West . ers was but negligible; buthe was through with all that, he told himselfagain, so why dwell upon it ? It was growing dark so he made only asuperficial survey of the neighborhood beforeheading Teton back the way he had night shut down about him he gave thehorse his head and Teton took him straightto the pass leading into the pocket thatsheltered his little cabin. He stripped thesaddle from the horse and prepared a bite toeat, then sat upon the sill and He had lingered here for a full month sincegathering his horses, attempting to reach adecisi
. The passing of the old West . ers was but negligible; buthe was through with all that, he told himselfagain, so why dwell upon it ? It was growing dark so he made only asuperficial survey of the neighborhood beforeheading Teton back the way he had night shut down about him he gave thehorse his head and Teton took him straightto the pass leading into the pocket thatsheltered his little cabin. He stripped thesaddle from the horse and prepared a bite toeat, then sat upon the sill and He had lingered here for a full month sincegathering his horses, attempting to reach adecision as to what he should do next; fornow that he had quit the force he foundhimself without a purpose, one of the armyof oldish men that are scattered through thehills with no definite object but to live fromday to day, prospecting or following thetrap line. Woodson had no immediate need of fundsand for the present was content to lingerhere. The purr of the little waterfall slidingdown the face of the cliff was soothing. This168. The moose could winter in the heavy drifts where allothers starved. Page 169. THE PASSING OF THE OLD WEST was home. A fox squalled from the highridges above timber hne and a coyote Kftedhis voice in an eerie howl from the timberjust outside the pass. The invasion of thehills by these little yellow prairie wolveswas but one of the many transitions he hadwitnessed in the last two decades. He hadseen the country when moose were practicallyunknown and now they ranged in hundredsin the swampy bottoms, increasing as theother game died out. These big migrantsfrom the north and the yellow invaders fromthe plains were the only two that held theirown; the moose for the reason that theycould winter in the heavy drifts where allothers starved; the coyotes because theircunning was superior to all the wiles that manmight employ against them, adapting them-selves to new conditions more rapidly thanmen could invent new means to harass theirkind. With the elk it was now
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