. Raising deer and other large game animals in the United States . estern side of the con-tinent. Including the six subspecies, or geographic races, it occurredfrom the Missouri River westward to California and southward intoLower California and Sonora. East of the Continental Divide itsrange extended north into British Columbia, Alberta, and otherprovinces to latitude 56° or 57°, and south into Texas. This rangehas been greatly diminished by the encroachments of settlementsand the lack of protecting laws, but the animals are still fairly com-mon in scattered localities except ii! the open pla

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. Raising deer and other large game animals in the United States . estern side of the con-tinent. Including the six subspecies, or geographic races, it occurredfrom the Missouri River westward to California and southward intoLower California and Sonora. East of the Continental Divide itsrange extended north into British Columbia, Alberta, and otherprovinces to latitude 56° or 57°, and south into Texas. This rangehas been greatly diminished by the encroachments of settlementsand the lack of protecting laws, but the animals are still fairly com-mon in scattered localities except ii! the open plains country. Outside of its natural range the mule deer has seldom , many of the attempts to acclimatize it east of the Mississippihave failed. In zoological gardens the animals often die of dis-eases of the digestive organs, but in several places they do fairlywell and have bred. They seem to have been thoroughly, acclima-tized in the large park belonging to the late William C. Whitney, 36, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agricultur Plate > m (J) 33 I - z Z o >

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