As a protection at night too, when out on long journeys across the country, during the hunting and fishing trips, or even at the permanent camps, the presence of a faithful watch-dog would probably have saved me from many a restless night.
The Navajo Indian's method of hunting antelope was to strew cedar branches or other brush in the form of a very long wing to a corral, lying loose and flat on the ground.

The antelope on being driven against it will never cross an obstruction of such a nature, though it only be a foot high, but will continue to run along it and so be finally driven into the corral.
And antelope are such inquisitive animals! On the Staked Plains of New Mexico the Mexicans approach them by dressing themselves up in any ridiculous sort of fashion, so as least to resemble a human being.

In this way they would not approach the antelope, but the antelope would approach them, curious to find out the nature of such an unusual monstrosity.

Antelope, there, were still very plentiful, and even in my own little pasture there was a band of some 300 head.

Only at certain times of the year did they bunch up together; at other times they, though still present, were hardly noticeable.
I would like to make note of the curious misnaming of wild animals in North America.