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Sport and Life. 



Wyoming fort, who fitted us out in right royal style with men, 

 horses, waggons, and escort, enabling us to visit the Ute Indian 

 country in the depth of a very severe w-inter, a few months after 

 their last outbreak in the autumn of 1879, in which, by the way, 

 I had very nearly come to grief. 



Far more preferable was the third way : to join a trapper outfit, 



CAMP IN THE BRUSH. 



and, at a cost which, under the circumstances, and in comparison 

 to the 10 or 15 per diem cost of many " top-shelfer " expeditions, 

 must be called exceedingly moderate, turn for all intents and 

 purposes trapper yourself. Only the most remote districts were 

 visited by the genuine fur-hunters by no means a numerous class 

 for the much persecuted beavers and other valuable fur-bearing 

 animals had long retired to a few uninvaded districts, and there 



