Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



if not more. I doubt if anyone since then 

 has taken our trail. I know, at the time, 

 none of the old-stagers thereabout would 

 believe we crossed where we said we did. 

 The old-time Tory is found out West 

 among hunters and prospectors, as he still 

 survives in the more civilized East. 



For several years Government surveys 

 have been gradually mapping the Yellow- 

 stone Park ; but the park itself (though 

 here and there intersected or encroached 

 on by mountains) is a great hollow, sur- 

 rounded on all sides — more especially on 

 the west and southwest — by a wilderness 

 of the wildest mountains within our bor- 

 ders, almost unexplored, so far as the Gov- 

 ernment is concerned. Here only, in the 

 park, so far as I know, has any thorough 

 work been attempted. There are, of 

 course, maps issued by the Office of the 

 Chief Engineer at Washington (the last 

 of these bears date 1881) ; but to take a 

 hunting outfit through the mountains by 

 its help alone necessitates going slowly and 

 feeling your way. It would not be a safe 

 guide by which to march a column of 

 troops. The inaccuracies of these maps I 

 know from actually having proved them. 



Before I turn away from the region of 

 Clarke's Fork, let me say, for the benefit 



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