fine art. Besides ourselves, there were 

 the horse wrangler, the cook (of whom 

 you shall hear later), and sixteen horses, 

 and we started from Jackson's Lake for 

 the Big Horn Basin, several hundred 

 miles over the pathless uninhabited 

 mountains. 



No one who has not tried it knows 

 how difficult it is for two or three men 

 to keep so many pack animals in line, 

 with no pathway to guide ; and once they 

 are started going nicely, it is nothing 

 short of a calamity to stop them, especial- 

 ly when it is necessary to cover a cer- 

 tain number of miles before nightfall in 

 order that they may have feed. 



We were on the Pacific side of the 

 Wind River Divide, and must get to the 

 top that night. The horses were travel- 

 ling nicely up the difficult ascent, so when 

 Nimrod got his feet wet crossing a 



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