Hunting at High Altitudes 



the second canon of the Yellowstone on the I3th. 

 While there, a portion of the cavalry that accom- 

 panied Colonel Gilbert on his trip around from 

 the head of the Madison, passed down toward 

 Fort Ellis, having with them Cowan and Albert 

 Oldham, who had survived the hostile Indians 

 near the Lower Geysers. 



In the afternoon we passed up the river, by the 

 cabin of Henderson, burned by hostiles, turned up 

 Gardiner's River and camped within three miles of 

 Mammoth Hot Springs. As this squad of cavalry 

 passed down, we were conscious that we had to 

 depend entirely on our own resources for the 

 remainder of the trip, for there was probably not 

 another white man in the Park. A note in my 

 diary says: "International rifle match com- 

 mences to-day." 



Early on the I4th we went on to the Hot 

 Springs, and spent two or three hours viewing their 

 beauties and wonders. We passed by the cabin, 

 in the door of which the Helena man had been 

 killed a few days before, after having escaped the 

 attack on the camp above the Grand Falls. 



Our trail passed up the gorge of one fork of 

 Gardiner's River in sight of the falls of that 

 stream. Just beyond where the trail emerged from 

 the gorge, McCartney and his companion had met 



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