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reached during the following forenoon. I 

 aimed to come out at Lilly Lake — which is, in 

 fact, only a small pond — thence cross another 

 ridge, make past a butte Leek had described to 

 me, and strike for a ford of the Buffalo, on the 

 opposite side of which is an old military road 

 leading into the direct route to the southern en- 

 trance of Yellowstone Park. 



In emerging from the timber to descend into 

 the gorge of the north branch, I descried some 

 tents on a hill opposite and to the right, and 

 upon riding up to them found it to be the camp 

 of Roy McBride, a Jackson's Hole guide, who 

 with three assistants, had an Englishman and 

 his wife on a hunting trip — a "dude outfit," as 

 one of the men put it. 



Travelers here are classified as "dudes," 

 "sage brushers," or "rough necks." Anyone 

 who travels or hunts with a guide is a "dude," 

 no matter how rough or unkempt his personal 

 appearance. Those who travel with wagons 

 on beaten roads, camping in more or less com- 

 fort with the paraphernalia they are able to 

 carry in this way, are "sage brushers." A horse- 

 back traveler, doing his own cooking and camp 

 work, unassisted by a guide and in fact rough- 

 ing it in the true sense, is a "rough neck" — that 

 is, one traveling as the people of the country 



