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A COLORADO BEAR-HUNT 



IN the early morning of an April day in 1907, after a tiresome 

 journey across the continent, Fuguet and I, with rifles and 

 baggage, were deposited by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 

 on the station platform at Salida, Colorado. Several hours 

 later we started over Marshall Pass on a narrow-gauge railroad 

 which formerly was the main line of the Denver & Rio Grande 

 until the shorter route through Tennessee Pass was completed. 

 After enjoying the picturesque scenery of the pass, we travelled 

 through the rolling sage-brush covered country of this part of 

 the State until, early in the afternoon, we descended from the 

 train at Cebolla, Gunnison County. This station consisted of 

 a comfortable collection of cabins, situated on the bank of the 

 Gunnison River, and operated by a man named Carpenter as a 

 resort for hunting and fishing parties. 



As the object of the long journey was a bear-hunt in the 

 mountainous country .to the west, the remainder of the after- 

 noon was spent in preparing for an early start the following day. 

 The next morning, shorth^ after daybreak, our cavalcade moved 

 westward along the north bank of the Gunnison. Besides the 

 five saddle-animals ridden by the two of us and Carpenter's three 

 sons, who accompanied us, two acting as guides and one as cook, 

 the outfit consisted of five loaded pack-horses and five pairs of 

 coupled bear-dogs. Eight of this pack were either foxhounds 

 or bloodhounds, or a mixture of both. The other two were 

 a small and aggressive fox-terrier named Trix, and a pugnacious 



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