Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



can possibly be secured in a hurry for such 

 a work as a mountain campaign implies ; 

 and to send troops, no matter how skilful 

 or how ably handled, into the field without 

 them, would be to send them to defeat. 



In a formation such as that of the Rocky 

 Mountains, the unexpected is the common. 

 A " divide " looks as though you could 

 march a regiment along it ; you get up 

 there, and lo ! it ends in a knife-edge ; a 

 great river swirls deeply and quietly at 

 your feet ; its pathway downward surely 

 can afford you a trail upward. You come 

 to a dead standstill in a mile or two ; and 

 the reverse of this is true. From Sunlight 

 (a pretty name, I think, for a pretty place 

 and a most forlorn little log shanty, of 

 which I am in part the proud posses- 

 sor) a long valley leads up to one of the 

 grandest groups of peaks I know anywhere. 

 This Sunlight is quite well known in the 

 Clarke's Fork region. The old trail from 

 Billings, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 

 to Cooke runs through it ; and to go from 

 the park to the Stinking Water country 

 and Gray Bull, where there is now a 

 considerable cattle industry, you must pass 

 by Sunlight. Prospectors, the best of all 

 mountaineers and explorers, are supposed 

 to have gone over every foot of that valley 



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