Wall %mnt in ffipoming 



N October, 1882, during a hunting trip in 

 that region, we camped one evening near a 

 little spring on the northern slope of the Owl 

 Creek Range a kind of spur of the Wind River 

 Mountains in Wyoming. The altitude of our camp 

 was about eight thousand feet above the sea level. 

 Next morning I took a stroll around and found 

 signs of game, elk and deer. Baron de la Grange, 

 whose companion I was, decided that we should 

 stay there for a few days in order to secure some 

 meat for our own use and also to bring or send 

 out some for the Officers' Mess at Fort Washakie. 

 That same afternoon we shot two mule deer, 

 which we packed down whole on our horses. On 

 arriving at our camp I skinned and divided up the 

 carcasses, and according to the usual trapper 

 style I erected a small platform with fork trees 

 to hang and lay the meat on, as it was then quite 

 cold in the mountains. Next forenoon I killed 

 another deer, and going to clean and prepare it 

 in the same place, I noticed that all the scraps 

 and feet which I had thrown away had disap- 

 peared. On making a closer examination I saw 

 tracks of either wolves or coyotes, but the ground 

 was too hard and grassy to distinguish well. We 

 went out together in the afternoon, but had no 



