282 ACCESSIBLE FIELD SPORTS. 



The vicinity of many of the forts is much to be 

 recommended, for you will there have opportunities of 

 making the acquaintance of numbers of the officers of 

 the United States regular army, whose society, like that 

 of all educated gentlemen, will do much to dissipate 

 ennui and the monotony of camp-life in bad weather ; 

 moreover, there are many first-class hunters among 

 them, and they are proverbial, as a body, for their 

 hospitality and good social qualities, while from the 

 numerous attaches that surround the forts, the most 

 authentic and reliable information can always be ob- 

 tained of the movements and locale of game. 



