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SPORT AND TRAVEL 



On the day following our arrival at our friends' 

 ranch we packed all the various things necessary for 

 our trip on to a light waggon, which we were to take 

 with us as far as the foot of the main range of the 

 Rocky Mountains, whence we intended to proceed to 



BEAVER DAM ON DUCK CREEK, NEAR BIGHORN, WYOMING, 

 AUGUST, 1897 



our camping-ground with pack ponies. In the after- 

 noon I rode about two miles up the creek to examine 

 a very perfect specimen of a beaver dam. This dam 

 I was told was a very typical one. It was built across 

 a little valley some thirty yards in width, in the form 

 of a crescent. The stream, which had originally been 

 confined to a narrow channel not more than a few 



