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the trail to “look for Indian signs,” as he 
said. At the fire, after supper, he informed 
us that years ago he was well acquainted 
with old Teton, after whom the mountains 
were named, and who had lived in the valley 
when it was fairly alive with game. 
The Grand Teton, now so wretchedly mis- 
named, is to my mind the most magnificent 
of mountains. Its situation, its isolation from 
neighbors, its great height, its vast hollows 
and chasms, many of them filled with per- 
petual snow, and its lofty, bare, inaccessible 
peak, always impress me with a sense of 
grandeur, majesty, and beauty, such as I 
have never found in any other mountain. 
About this time Lanahan abandoned all 
activity except looking for Indians, poisoning 
our minds against Harrington, and attempt- 
ing the “horse-wrangling” each morning. 
He would start out alone quite early, and 
after blundering about in a most inefficient 
way, and getting all the nervous horses 
thoroughly excited and scared, would call 
some of the other men to his assistance, and 
then proceed himself to get the packs in as 
great confusion as possible before the horses 
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