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were both abundant, and the horses soon showed the 

 effect of better treatment. 



August 3, the camp was moved to Lander, where a 

 stop of twenty-four hours was made, after which the ex- 

 pedition proceeded to and up the Big Wind River. The 

 route lay across the Shoshone Indian Reservation, one 

 camp being made at Fort Washakie. It was found nec- 

 essary to ford the Big Wind River thirteen times before 

 Dubois postoffice was reached. This is the last outpost 

 of civilization on the river and it is near this place that 

 the trail-over the Wind River Mountains through Union 

 Pass leads off from the river. 



The ascent through the pass was begun on August 

 10, the summit of the range being reached early on the 

 iith. A most varied and beautiful vegetation was pres- 

 ent on every hand all the way up, and at the highest 

 point in the pass, about 9,500 feet, the open parks among 

 the Spruce groves were covered with the wildest profu- 

 sion of flowers — a veritable botanist's paradise. Two full 

 days were spent here, but that was far too short a time 

 even though the days were considerably lengthened out 

 by the cheerful evening and early morning campfires. 

 Union Peak, with its snow banks, the moist, dense copses 

 on its slopes and the small fertile valleys at its base 

 rivalled each other in the richness of their treasures. 



The days were slipping by and the stay could not be 

 prolonged even here, so on the 14th we turned our faces 

 toward the three Teton peaks, whose lofty summits, 

 though yet a hundred miles away, were seen from our 

 present point of vantage standing out against the pellu- 

 cid sky like mighty spires, their seamed and snow-flecked 

 faces shining with a radiance possible only in such an 



