WESTERN CAMP LIFE 



through which they pass in order that they 

 may enhance the interest of their experience. 

 This goes with the weakness for overstating 

 the distance and increasing the apparent 

 difficulty of the shots which they make in 

 securing their trophies, in which error they 

 are too frequently sustained by the somewhat 

 elastic conscience of the guide. This is an 

 age of progress, and that phrase applies to 

 methods of enjoying sport quite as well as 

 it does to anything else. Having good sport 

 with comfort in camp life is simply a question 

 of dollars and cents. The average person 

 does not understand the present conditions 

 of sporting life in a wild country. 



It must be borne in mind that in traveling 

 in rough sections of the West, where big 

 game still abounds, although in much smaller 

 numbers than formerly, everything has to< be 

 carried on pack horses. What you are to 

 take is limited simply by the supply of pack 

 horses you are to engage. In an up-to-date 

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