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every day but two after leaving Fort Washakie until reaching the 

 Northern Pacific Bailroad. The total distance covered by ambulance 

 from Green River to Fort Washakie, and thence to Billings on horse- 

 back, was 592 miles. At nearly all times after the first two days oat 

 from Washakie we had plenty of large or small game in camp for our 

 mess table, including elk, black and white tailed deer, antelope, buffalo, 

 bear, mountain-sheep, ducks, and grouse, and trout in abundance. 



The weather was pleasant during the entire trip, and our outfit com- 

 plete. We had all varieties of climate and scenery that belong to the 

 prairies and mountains of our northwestern country, and we all return 

 home delighted with our experience, reinvigorated, healthy, and ready 

 for another of the same sort. 



The exploration has proved the practicability of the route into the 

 National Park from the forks of Wind Biver by way of Lincoln Pass, 

 the valleys of the Gros Ventre and Snake Rivers and of Lewis' or Lake 

 Fork of the Snake Biver. 



The crossing of the Bear Tooth range has hitherto been deemed an im- 

 possibility, and many have tried but failed to get through, notably the 

 escort to the boundary surveyors a year ago last summer and Captain 

 Clark in 1878, both of whom were seeking to reach, by a shorter route 

 than the Clarke's Fork trail, the Crow Agency, which is on the Bosebud 

 Biver, just north of the Bear Tooth range. Indians are always accredited 

 with intimate knowledge of all the country over which they can by any 

 possibility range j but Captain Clark informs me that besought in vain to 

 find a Crow Indian who had ever been across the Bear Tootl;, or had 

 ever heard of any one else who had. They united in saying that it wa 

 not possible for a horse to get through. Our trail, however, can scarcely 

 be called a practicable way of approach to the park from the north, as 

 most of the year it will be impassable by reason of snow. 



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