A Mountain Fraud 



drawings he had made of elk and Indians, 

 which were as true to nature in their general 

 features as anything of the kind I have ever 

 seen, and caused me to believe that he only- 

 needed education to make him distinguished. 

 He had never had any instruction, and his 

 only artistic implement was a lead-pencil. 



When we reached the Teton Valley, Lana- 

 han, who had taken up riding ahead to "look 

 out the trail," which was as definite as Broad- 

 way, and to protect us against the dangers 

 which encompassed our path, learned from a 

 passer-by that fifty lodges of Lemhi Indians 

 were before us on a hunt. He called Hanna 

 and me to one side, when he conveyed this in- 

 formation, and said he was now convinced of 

 what he had suspected from the first, that 

 Harrington's joining us was part of a plot 

 between him and the Lemhis to facilitate the 

 running off of our horses, and an incidental 

 murder or two, if necessary. That night we 

 camped on the west side of Mount Hayden, 

 the biggest of the Tetons, close by the place 

 where the Indians had stayed a few days 

 before ; and Lanahan armed himself and 

 climbed a little peak at some distance from 



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