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cross the intervening counties to the southward 

 on horseback from Phippsburg to Glenwood 

 Springs, visit Meeker and Rifle, and meet as 

 many guides and hunters as possible, and thus 

 secure as intimate a knowledge of the game 

 country and conditions as such a trip would af- 

 ford, but this, I found, would require more time 

 than I had at my disposal and rob me of time 

 which I wished to devote to Wyoming and 

 Montana. Though this was early September, 

 snow had already fallen, a suggestion of what 

 might be expected in the country farther north. 

 Therefore, after two days in Phippsburg, I 

 returned to Denver and proceeded by train to 

 Glenwood Springs. 



This is the chief rendezvous of the Colorado 

 guides and an excellent outfitting point. Chief 

 among the guides here are Anderson and Bax- 

 ter, who work together as partners, and W. W. 

 Warner. All of them were absent, however, to 

 my disappointment, save Steve Baxter, a fa- 

 mous old-time hunter and trapper, one of the 

 pioneers of the region and a member of the firm 

 of Anderson & Baxter. Steve, who has hunted 

 from Montana to old Mexico, possesses one of 

 the finest packs of bear and lion dogs in the 

 country. He was with Harry Whitney, the 

 well-known sportsman-author of Arctic fame, 



