Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



unlike the snow-fields in the Alps, where 

 the snow is much softer, and where I have 

 seen them not nearly so steep. 



Before referring more specially to camp- 

 ing and hunting in this life-giving region, 

 let me add one word about the lake-sys- 

 tem of the Upper Yellowstone. Where 

 can such lakes be found as these ? The 

 great Yellowstone, Lewis, Shoshone, Jack- 

 son, and Heart Lakes, all lying within an 

 area of sixty miles square, clear as only 

 Rocky Mountain lakes can be, full of 

 trout, still reflecting the stately antlers of 

 the elk, and now and then the uncouth 

 form of the moose, and still affording a 

 safe home to the much-persecuted beaver. 

 Fortunately these lakes, excepting Jackson, 

 are within the boundaries of the park. If 

 the suggestions of the gentlemen who have 

 done such valuable work in surveying that 

 region are adopted by the Government, the 

 park will be doubled in size, and thus a safe 

 retreat, and, what is of more importance 

 still, a safe summer breeding-place will 

 be preserved as an inviolate sanctuary for 

 our noble American game. None of these 

 lakes is so little known, or more worth the 

 knowing, than Heart Lake. It is not easy 

 of access, as it lies in a dense forest ten 

 miles due south of the Thumb of the great 



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