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purely sentimental, but who among nature 

 lovers would not feel more than a qualm of 

 sorrow were this noble animal of the wilder- 

 ness, which played so large a part in our child- 

 ish fancy and dreams, driven to extinction? 

 Furthermore, it has a decided value, even from 

 the most sordid standpoint, for its pelt, if for 

 nothing else. 



Northwestern Colorado — Colorado as a 

 whole, in fact — is so interesting that I turned 

 westward again to Salt Lake to resume the sad- 

 dle with keen regret that I could not dip 

 farther into its wilderness and revel for a time 

 in its lofty, rugged peaks and marvelous 

 scenery. 



