"Journeying on Horseback 

 a <^Mo?ita?ia Girl Wins Distinction 



IN the mountains of Montana, where cultivating 

 crops is a matter of hard work with the pre- 

 liminary of irrigation, a fourteen-year-old girl, 

 Mira Hunt, of King, near the Canadian border, 

 has won a Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund 

 medal by whole-hearted campaigning of which 

 The People's Home Journal is very proud. 



No praise is too great for the boy or girl mem- 

 ber of the Green Meadow Club who takes up the 

 cause of Bird Sanctuaries. In the big West, where 

 it takes half a day's journey "to get anywhere at 

 all," and the business of getting about involves many 

 a tussle with nature and many a test of strength, 

 one bends the knee to the youngster who has grit 

 enough to tackle the job. Miss Hunt's letter has 

 a wealth of word painting all its own. Here it is: 



I live on a homestead one mile from Canada, be- 

 tween the Milk River and the Sweet Grass Hills, 

 part of the Rockies. As the people out here live 

 quite a distance apart, I traveled over a great many 

 miles to get my pledges signed. I went horseback 

 to the Milk River Valley to get signers. Then papa 

 took me to the Sweet Grass Hills in the car, which 

 was about eighty miles the round trip. I also went 

 to several farmers' meetings and the Red Cross. 

 Almost every person was willing to sign, and some 

 were anxious to when they knew what the pledges 



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