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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 tor 
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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