Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



Black-tail Deer. 



fresh, vivid blue, wide plots of yellow, 

 purple-centred sunflowers stoutly hold up 

 their heads ; while on the border-land of 

 these flower-beds of nature, where the 

 grass shortens in blade, and deepens to an 

 intense shade of green, the delicate moun- 

 tain lily, with its three pure-white petals, 

 fading to the tenderest green at the centre, 

 reaches its graceful height of some nine 

 inches. All this one has abundant leisure 

 to observe, as he sits well to windward, by 



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