on every hill, I discovered that there 

 were yet new imps to conquer in my 

 world of fear. Shakspere has said some 

 nice things about fear — " Of all the 

 wonders, ... it seems to me most 

 strange that men should fear " — but he 

 never knew anything about squirming 

 rattlesnakes. 



The Cuttle Fish ranch is five miles 

 from Markham. That thriving metrop- 

 olis has ten houses and eleven saloons, 

 in spite of Dakota being ' prohibition.' 

 Markham is in the heart of the Bad 

 Lands, the wonderful freakish Bad 

 Lands, where great herds of cattle 

 range over all the possible, and some 

 of the impossible, places, while the rest 

 of it — black, green, and red peaks, hills 

 of powdered coal, wicked land cuts 

 that no plumb can fathom, treacherous 

 clay crust over boiling lava, arid hor- 



