12 HELEN ABBOTT MICHAEL 



Park. I was daily enjoying the instructive companionship 

 of Cope during the month of our stay and, the company 

 having been augmented by several State geologists, we formed 

 parties for exploring some of the less frequented parts of the 

 Park. Some of us pushed on from the Yellowstone Canon 

 across the Mt. Washburn trail to Yancey's, the petrified for- 

 est, and amethyst mountain. That expedition was full of ad- 

 venture, including an encounter with a bear, a snowstorm on 

 top of Mt. Washburn, one of the ponies sliding three hundred 

 feet down the trail, and a runaway. Our journey later con- 

 tinued across the plains of Idaho to Utah. Cope had left us 

 for a few days to visit the Green River region for specimens. 

 He brought me back a perfect specimen of a fossilized fish- 

 skeleton. He said it was a most unusual find. 



Our experiences in Salt Lake City were somewhat unique. 

 We met quite a number of women who were living in plural 

 marriage. Those with whom we spoke seemed generally con- 

 tent. On the Sunday of our stay we attended services at the 

 temple. They included reading from the Old Testament, 

 the singing of hymns, preaching, and the participation in a sort 

 of a communion, bread being handed around among the con- 

 gregation. My father had preserved a most reverent attitude 

 towards the services, and when the dish of bread was handed 

 to him, he took a piece, bowed his head, and proceeded to eat 

 it as all the good Mormons were doing. 



Afterwards when we taxed my father with the query if 

 he intended to become one of the elders, he did not vigorously 

 affirm that he would not. He said, "Well, you would n't have 

 me refuse the hospitality they had extended to a stranger." 



The second year I spent at the Medical College, I devoted 

 extra time to the dissecting-room, and in order to have an abun- 

 dance of material, I made arrangements, in addition to my 

 dissecting at the Woman's College, for the evening use of a 

 dissecting-table in the Dental College then at Twelfth and 

 Filbert streets. The dissecting-room was very thoroughly 

 equipped, and from eight until ten o'clock I worked there 

 nightly. This institution was so much more accessible to my 

 home that I was saved a long, lonely walk which I should 



