Crossword-Solution: BIGHORNS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

After dinner our host proposed a hunt for bighorns, a large herd of which was known to graze in the mountains within less than a mile from the yurtas.

Deer are very abundant in the neighbourhood of travellers rest of both speceis, also some bighorns and Elk.

Presently we heard the sharp crack of his rifle ringing through the defile; and, looking up, we saw a flock of "bighorns"--so the wild sheep of the Rocky Mountains are called--leaping from rock to rock, and almost flying like birds up the face of the cliffs.

Between the argali and the antelope, we had provision enough to last us for a week at least; but when that was done, what likelihood was there of our procuring a further supply of either? Not much, thought we; for although there might be a few more antelopes and a few more `bighorns' about the place, there could not be many with so little appearance of anything for them to feed upon.

Buffalo, antelope, and elk ranged in common in herds of hundreds of thousands, while in the rough shores of the river lived countless bighorns, hundreds of grizzlies, and a like proportion of buffalo and antelope as well, not to mention the big wolves and other predatories.