Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



I know for securing men. A railway will 

 soon connect it with the Northern Pacific ; 

 and meanwhile, from June till December, 

 a stage runs three times a week to the 

 Mammoth Hot Springs. But some good 

 hunters are still to be found at Billings and 

 Bozeman on the Northern Pacific Rail- 

 road. On one of the most successful trips 

 I ever made we had no guides at all. I 

 steered the party by such aid as the map 

 afforded. So long as wc went slowly, 

 sending one of the party forward, day by 

 day, to hunt a trail, we did very well. 

 We only got into one scrape that might 

 have ended seriously, and that came from 

 foolishly venturing down a canon none of 

 us had ever explored. Go slow ; and go 

 nowhere unless you are sure you can, at 

 the worst, retrace your steps, and you will 

 enjoy your trip. 



Though a guide is not a necessity, a 

 couple of first-class packers are. Any man, 

 with some little experience of roughing 

 it, can guide a party fairly well ; but no 

 mortal man, not to the manner born, can 

 pack. No baby is more dependent on its 

 mother than is the tenderfoot upon his 

 packer. Day after day he stands, in won- 

 dering admiration, and sees this individual 

 "throw" the marvellous diamond hitch- 

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