The "red moose" was another kind, "running on mountains," and had horns which spread six feet.

The moose is also an inhabitant of the Namakagun.

They are found along the mountains of western Montana and Idaho as far south as the northwest corner of Wyoming in the neighborhood of the Yellowstone Park, the Tetons and the Wind River Mountains being their southern limit in this section.[10] The moose of the west are relatively small animals with simple antlers, and have adapted themselves to mountain living in striking contrast to their kin in the east.

The name moose is an Algonquin word, meaning a wood eater or browser, and is most appropriate, since the animal is pre-eminently a creature of the thick woods.

Moose were our best game.

The moose is the lion of these regions.

She says thisthisGalloping Moose, this yelping ghost-dancer of yours, is the only real man she ever met.'

Sometimes when he's been livin' on bacon an' beans fer months, he lets a flock o' young ptarmigan fly by him 'cause he says they look so soft an' pretty an' fluttery he don't like ter shoot 'em; an' Moose is a dead shot.