CHAPTER XVII 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WOMAN GUIDE 



A NUMBER of nature guides are women. 

 Their number will increase. Their work is 

 identical with that of men guides. In this 

 chapter are glimpses of some of the field expe- 

 riences and some of the driving forces of environ- 

 ment that resulted in producing one woman na- 

 ture guide. The name of this woman is omitted 

 at her request. 



"She's the woman who made the fifteen-mile 

 moonlight walk across the mountains in the snow," 

 said one of the waiting group, as a young lady in 

 knickerbockers, having adjusted the snowshoes 

 strapped across her shoulders, left the post- 

 office. 



"Oh," said another, "that was nothing com- 

 pared with the thirty-mile trip which she made 

 alone across the Range." 



"Evidently she is a woman with a purpose in 

 life," remarked the postmaster, looking out the 

 window at the graceful figure swinging easily up the 

 street. "She came out here from the East last fall 

 determined to become a good mountaineer, and 

 took up a homestead near MacGregor Pass. She 



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