Elk
MOOSE, or MOOSE DEER, the largest of the deer family, a native of northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American form (to which the name moose is usually given), is sometimes separated from the European, but most naturalists find no specific difference between them.
The elk or moose has a short, compact body, standing about 6 feet in height at the shoulders, a thick neck, large, clumsy head, and horns which flatten out almost from the base into a broad, palmate form with numerous snags. In color the elk is grayish brown, the limbs, sides of head, and coarse mane being, however, of a lighter hue. The moose has a wide range in Canada, extending from the AMERICAN ELK year he removed to New Mexico and was elected to the Territorial Legislature. He became in succession district attorney, Attorney-General of the Territory and United States District Attorney. was a delegate to Congress from New He Mexico from 1873 to 1877. He later removed to West Virginia and married the daughter of Henry Gassaway Davis, thus acquiring large business interests, particularly in the coal business and railways. From 1891 to 1893 he was Secretary of War in President Harrison's cabinet, and in 1894 he was elected to the Senate. He was twice re-elected. He was the author of Elkins' Railway Law of 1903. He died in 1911.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; it is Arctic Ocean, and British Columbia, to found also in Maine. It feeds largely on the shoots of trees or shrubs. In Sweden there are many restrictions. its destruction is illegal, and in Norway