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they were scattered and I could get no more exposures. At 

 the other end of the range I found two ewes and a yearling 

 feeding right down underneath me as I looked off a cliff. I 

 made an exposure on them, but the plate broke on the way 

 home. The work was extremely hard, the 8 by 10 camera 

 very heavy, and often I would reach camp utterly exhausted. 

 Circumstances compelled our return to Green River without 

 further result. On this range I saw, one day, deer, elk, and 

 mountain sheep, all within a mile of one another. 



Out on a ledge near the top of a high cliff the golden eagle 

 builds a nest of sticks — here mostly sage-brush, which is used 

 year after year. Usually they lay two eggs, but occasionally 

 three. 



Several miles from my home was a nest very near the summit 

 of the cliff, just within reach from the top. I went there 

 several times to get a picture of the old hen bird. Twice I 

 had good chances, but one one-hundredth second was too slow, 

 so I tried one two-hundred-and-fiftieth, and finally one five-hun- 

 dredth second, and the result was almost perfect. The eagle 

 went down off the nest, as there was no wind to raise her, so 

 the view is of her back. 



Rattlesnakes are not the kind of companions chosen by many, 

 but they are met with frequently in certain parts of the West, 

 and many times at the wrong moment. On Spring Creek 

 there is a veritable den of them in a rocky hillside. The first 

 one we found was near a cactus, so I had my companions try 

 to keep him near it while I prepared the camera. The snake 



