Musk-ox, bison, sheep and goat

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Identifier: muskoxbisonsheep00whit (find matches)
Title: Musk-ox, bison, sheep and goat
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929 Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
Subjects: Hunting Muskox American bison Mountain sheep Mountain goat
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of horn and thick-ness of the boss. Indian hunters who saw it, atall events, considered it most unusual. It meas-ures IIJ by 27J; width of crevice, i-J inch; thick-ness of boss at crevice, 3I inches. The flesh of the musk-ox is exceedingly tough,and by no means pleasing to the taste, especiallyin the rutting season (August and September),when it is practically uneatable. There is a cer-tain musky odor, but it is not so pronounced asgenerally said to be. In fact the only distinctmusk-ox odor is got from breaking and crushingthe dry dung. As indicative of this queer crea-ture, I may add that musk-ox dung is but verylittle larger than and of very near the shape andcolor as that of the large hare. The flesh of thecow is by no means choice, but it is not bad;the flesh of the calf I found to be rather tasteless.The unborn calf is considered quite a delicacy,of which my Indians did not deny themselvesmerely because we had no cooking fire. They ateit raw, just as they took it from the mothers
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