...The Indians inhabiting the Indian Country had suddenly gone on the war-path without our knowing anything about it till it was almost too late, and we were compelled to git out, with a band of Utes hovering round us for several days....The country we were now in was claimed by the peaceful Soshones, whose fine old chief, the celebrated Washakie—the white mans friend he loved to call himself—was always exerting his influence to keep his more turbulent young bucks from joining any of the warlike demonstrations of other tribes...."

William Adolph Baillie Grohman (1851–1921) was an Anglo-Austrian author of works on the Tyrol and the history of hunting, a big game sportsman, and a pioneer of Kootenay--- the southeastern portion of British Columbia, taking its name from the Kootenay River. In 1900, he publishedFifteen years sport and life in the hunting grounds of western America and British Columbia."

This book is the record of sport enjoyed by the author in visits, extending over fifteen years, to the Pacific slope of North America. “Sport such as I enjoyed in the seventies and early eighties is no longer to be obtained—nothing approaching it.” Mr. Baillie-Grohman is a connoisseur of antlers, and his book is a mine of facts about the wapiti, the moose, the antelope goat, and other splendid game. Some of the authors photographs, such as “Civilisations Progress : Collecting the Last Relics of the Bison for Fertiliser Manufactories,” and an astonishing photograph of a “Salmon Run in a British Columbia River,” are of great interest. Mrs. Baillie-Grohman adds a chapter on the conditions of domestic life on the Slope, with its dependence on Chinese servants, &c. A description of the logging and lumber industry is included. The practical issues of frontier life are touched up throughout the book, which is a matured personal record that will not disappoint readers of the authors earlier works, Tyrol and the Tyrolese, Camps in the Rockies, &c

This volume, as will be naturally anticipated by those who have had the good fortune to read Mr. Baillie-Grohmans previous books, will be found full of interest. The author tells his story—and, unlike some modern writers, he has a story to tell— with a straightforward vigour and keen sense of humour which at once attracts the reader. The book appeals, no doubt, to the sportsman more than to the mountaineer, but so much of the hunting is carried on amongst mountains, and requires climbing ability of such a high order, that mountaineers will find much of high interest in it.

In describing the hunt of a mountain goat, he writes:There was a good deal of fooling about the old billys proceedings, for from time to time he would squat down and take a rest, much amused, no doubt, by the frantic scrambles of his breathless pursuer above him, clearly outlined against the horizon, and feeling very sure that the shaking aim would be anything but dangerous to him."

The wapiti, the moose, caribou, bighorn, antelope, the bears, and the bison all bulk largely in Mr. Baillie-Grohmans pages, five chapters being devoted to them, while the seal shares a chapter with the other fur-bearing animals of the Pacific Coast, and the salmon of the Pacific Coast has a chapter to himself.

Contents
I. TRAVELLING IN THE WESTERN HUNTING GROUNDS.
II. THE SLAUGHTER OF BIG GAME AND THE GAME LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
III. THE WAPITI AND HIS ANTLERS.
IV. THE ANTELOPE-GOAT OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE MOUNTAINS.
V. THE MOOSE, CARIBOU, AND SMALL DEER OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
VI. THE BIGHORN AND THE ANTELOPE.
VII. THE BEAR AND THE BISON.
VIII. THE FUR-BEARING ANIMALS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
IX. THE SALMON OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
X. PIONEERING IN KOOTENAY.
XI. PIONEERING IN KOOTENAY.
XII. RUNNING A SAWMILL AND A STORE UP COUNTRY.
XIII. PATH FINDING IN THE KOOTENAY COUNTRY, AND NOTES ON THE INDIANS.
XIV. SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF VICTORIA.
XV. THE YELLOW AND WHITE AGONY.