His pack usually hunted coyote, fox, jack-rabbit, and deer; and I have had more than one good run with it.
My own experience is too limited to allow me to pass judgment with certainty as to the relative speed of the different beasts of the chase, especially as there is so much individual variation.

I consider the antelope the fleetest of all however; and in this opinion I am sustained by Col.

Roger D.Williams, of Lexington, Kentucky, who, more than any other American, is entitled to speak upon coursing, and especially upon coursing large game.Col.Williams, like a true son of Kentucky, has bred his own thoroughbred horses and thoroughbred hounds for many years; and during a series of long hunting trips extending over nearly a quarter of a century he has tried his pack on almost every game animal to be found among the foot-hills of the Rockies and on the great plains.
His dogs, both smooth-haired greyhounds and rough-coated deer-hounds, have been bred by him for generations with a special view to the chase of big game--not merely of hares; they are large animals, excelling not only in speed but in strength, endurance, and ferocious courage.

The survivors of his old pack are literally seamed all over with the scars of innumerable battles.

When several dogs were together they would stop a bull-elk, and fearlessly assail a bear or cougar.