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represented. One was almost yellow, one 

 a dark silvertip, and one almost brown. 

 There is, among bears, a considerable vari- 

 ety in shape and outline sometimes ; and 

 back of the tusk, in the lower and upper 

 jaws, some few grizzlies seem to have a 

 lesser and second tusk instead of the usual 

 molar ; but this is a rarity, I fancy. I 

 only found it twice, and our men could 

 not remember having seen it before. 



I will end this rambling paper as I began 

 it. Why does this splendid Alpine region 

 of ours, so rich in beauty and in all va- 

 rieties of interest, attract so few ? For 

 a party of two or three, a trip of seven or 

 eight weeks amid its solitudes need not 

 cost each one more than many spend dur- 

 ing a couple of months at some fashion- 

 able seaside resort. 



To get competent guides is the chief 

 difficulty. The men who can or will take 

 an outfit through a mountainous country, 

 where they have never been before, are few 

 and far between ; and the so-called certifi- 

 cated guides, numerous enough in the park, 

 know little or nothing of the country be- 

 yond it. The charges, too, in the park 

 for transport are excessive. Cooke City, 

 Gallatin County, Montana, the mining- 

 camp I have referred to, is the best place 



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