From a Cabin Window 



BY H. W. MENKE 



With Photographs from Nature by the Author 



URING the winter of 1897-8 I prospected for Jurassic 

 fossils in Carbon and Albany counties, Wyoming. 

 When cold weather and snow rendered, field work im- 

 practicable as well as very disagreeable, I made permanent 

 camp for the winter at Aurora, Wyoming,- — a *mere station 

 on the Union Pacific R. R. , an old abandoned section- 

 house serving as my winter quarters. 



This part of Wyoming, -^at all times dreary and lonely, 

 — is strikingly so during winter months. Then snow fills 



the ravines and lends a level, prairie-like aspect to the landscape. 



I doubt if there is to be found anywhere a more desolate country 



HORNED LARKS AND SNOWFLAKES 



than this ; at least such was my impression when the novelty of my 

 surroundings had worn off. 



Among the various expedients to which I resorted for amusement, 

 was photographing such birds as I could lure around the cabin. 

 That I was not more successful in securing good negatives is due to 

 the difficulties with which I had to contend. Chief of these were the 



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