American Big-Game Hunting 



the trail to "look for Indian signs," as he 

 said. At the fire, after supper, he informed 

 us that years ago he was well acquainted 

 with old Teton, after whom the mountains 

 were named, and who had lived in the valley 

 when it was fairly alive with game. 



The Grand Teton, now so wretchedly mis- 

 named, is to my mind the most magnificent 

 of mountains. Its situation, its isolation from 

 neighbors, its great height, its vast hollows 

 and chasms, many of them filled with per- 

 petual snow, and its lofty, bare, inaccessible 

 peak, always impress me with a sense of 

 grandeur, majesty, and beauty, such as I 

 have never found in any other mountain. 



About this time Lanahan abandoned all 

 activity except looking for Indians, poisoning 

 our minds against Harrington, and attempt- 

 ing the " horse-wrangling " each morning. 

 He would start out alone quite early, and 

 after blundering about in a most inefficient 

 way, and getting all the nervous horses 

 thoroughly excited and scared, would call 

 some of the other men to his assistance, and 

 then proceed himself to get the packs in as 

 great confusion as possible before the horses 



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