SADDLE AND CAMP IN 

 THE ROCKIES 



CHAPTER I 



TAKING TO THE TRAIL 



IT was late in the afternoon of June twenty- 

 sixth, 19 10, when I arrived at Holbrook, 

 Arizona, where I was to begin my long 

 horseback journey through the big game coun- 

 try. I had chosen Holbrook as my outfitting 

 and starting point, because of its central loca- 

 tion between the largest primeval forest in the 

 United States and the Apache Indian country 

 to the southward, and a wide stretch of arid 

 but interesting desert, including the Navajo, 

 Hopi, and Paiute Indian reservations to the 

 northward. 



With saddle and pack horses as means of 

 transportation, I was first to turn southward 



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