ELK HUNT IN WYOMING 



with the aid of a couple of Mormons, who, 

 for a consideration, agreed to help them 

 for several miles, we got the pack train 

 properly started, and after that had no 

 further trouble with them. 



The journey was a fairly long one, but it 

 became more interesting as we drew away 

 from civilization and got closer to the place 

 where we intended to make permanent camp. 

 After the first day we passed the wide 

 monotonous stretch of sage brush flats which 

 lies between St. Anthony and Victor; after 

 that the landscape grew more mountainous 

 and wooded. The country became very pic- 

 turesque as we proceeded; every mountain 

 presented a view which was a panorama; 

 every opening in the timber seemed a natural 

 frame for an entrancing picture; the atmos- 

 phere so clear and bracing gave fine definition 

 to objects in view; the winding river rushed 

 fretting and foaming between the rocks in 

 the valley below; large clumps of spruces 

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