It is an animal of phlegmatic temperament. A story has been told of one goat, whose “partner” had been shot, which deliberately sat down a short distance away and watched the hunter skin and cook a portion of his dead mate.
Its flesh is musky and dry and it is not palatable to white men except when they are exceedingly hungry. Its skin has no commercial value. For these reasons and also because it is hard to reach, the Rocky Mountain goat is not likely to be exterminated very soon.
BASED ON MATERIAL DRAWN FROM “THE AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY,” COPYRIGHT 1904, BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY
ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR. VOL. 4. No. 13. SERIAL No. 113
FROM A PAINTING BY CARL RUNGIUS COPYRIGHT 1904
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Game Animals of America
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Monograph Number Four in The Mentor Reading Course