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good fellow, a mining prospector, who stayed 

 wuth us until we crossed the Colorado at Lee's 

 Ferry. He was originally a New York State 

 man, who had grown up in Montana, and had 

 prospected through the mountains from the 

 Athabaska River to the Mexican boundary. 

 Uncle Jim was a Texan, born at San Antonio, 

 and raised in the Panhandle, on the Goodnight 

 ranch. In his youth he had seen the thronging 

 myriads of bison, and taken part in the rough 

 life of the border, the life of the cow-men, the 

 buffalo-hunters, and the Indian-fighters. He 

 was by instinct a man of the right kind in all 

 relations; and he early hailed w^th delight the 

 growth of the movement among our people to 

 put a stop to the senseless and wanton destruc- 

 tion of our wild life. Together with his — and 

 my — friend Buffalo Jones he had worked for the 

 preservation of the scattered bands of bison; he 

 was keenly interested not only in the preserva- 

 tion of the forests but in the preservation of 

 the game. He had been two years buffalo war- 

 den in the Yellowstone National Park. Then 

 he had come to the Colorado National Forest 

 Reserve and Game Reserve, where he had 

 been game warden for over six years at the 

 time of our trip. He has given zealous and 

 efficient service to the people as a whole; for 



