INTRODUCTION 



FOR several years it had been my desire 

 to see intimately some of the wilder sec- 

 tions of the Rocky Mountain region, 

 and personally observe the big game ranges and 

 game conditions. In the spring of 1910 I was 

 so fortunate as to be in position to complete ar- 

 rangements for the trip, which I planned to 

 make with saddle and pack animals, starting 

 in Arizona and proceeding northward across 

 intervening States into Montana, a total dis- 

 tance of nearly two thousand miles. Not only 

 would the journey take me through some of 

 the best big game country in the United States, 

 but it promised unusual interest in many other 

 ways. It would carry me into what we may 

 call the remnant of our frontier, over big cattle 

 ranges, through Apache, Navajo, Hopi, and 

 Paiute Indian country, across desert reaches, 

 and would give me a view of many of the nat- 

 ural wonders in which our West i$ so rich. 



