Word: elk
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these instances, investigation has shown that the confusion was caused in subsequent years. But discoveries in the Look-out and Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found, such as deer, tortoise, elk, rabbit and many others. It is probable that the human beings who lived there had killed those animals for food, since the bones that were scattered about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also in Hartman...
...Yachting" is principally an account of this winter's events on the ice, with short descriptions of many of the first-class ice yachts and a discussion of some technical points. To the average reader, it is uninteresting. The best articles in the number are "Ski Running," "Roping Elk in the Rockies." and "Through Darkest America." The first of these is an interesting article on "ski running" and racing in Norway; "Roping, Elk in the Rockies" is a description of the lassoeing of a big elk and makes very interesting reading. "Through Darkest America" is an account of a canoe...