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canned tomatoes, corn and peas, some dried 
onions, a large sack of beans and the where- 
withal to cook them palatably, salt, sugar, 
coffee and tea, plenty of the best brands of 
condensed cream and milk, a big jar of but- 
ter solidly packed in wet cloths and salt and 
a few cans of jam and preserved fruits for 
hasty lunches, comprised the greater part of 
our provisions. For fresh milk, eggs and 
vegetables we depended on the country 
through which we were to travel, and for 
fresh meat and fish on the ranchers and our 
fish-lines. We took ten loaves of bread asa 
starter, but very soon had to depend on 
biscuit, gems and “‘duff,’’ for towns were 
few and far between and bread impossible 
to obtain. 
“We packed our provisions in the 
lockers, filled up the boxes along the side 
with plenty of bedding and blankets and the 
few clothes we were to take with us, stowed 
a couple of wire cots between the seats, 
slung the tent poles by leather straps along 
the side of the wagon and there we were, all 
ready to start. 
“We left Denver early in the morning, 
and I shall never forget that first day out. 
We rode all day through fertile meadows 
and green, rolling plains, and by night had 
reached the mountains and took our way up 
a fragrant, fern-lined cafon, where, beside 
the roaring mountain stream, we made our 
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first camp. Phil and I pitched the tent 
while Ned and Ethel gathered up firewood, 
and Carrie fixed up the stove and prepared 
to start the dinner. You see we had ar- 
ranged that each member of the party 
should take his or her share of the work. 
By the time the tent was up, the horses fed, 
watered and turned out to graze, the camp 
stove in place and the fire started, we were a 
mighty hungry party. I went down to the 
stream and caught a nice mess of trout; 
Carrie made some of her fine biscuits, Ethel 
made the coffee and we had a dinner out 
there on the grass of that Colorado cafion 
that beat any I have ever eaten elsewhere. 
“Tt was a bright moonlight night and after 
dinner Ned built up a big camp-fire, Ethel 
brought out her mandolin and Carrie her 
guitar, and we sat around the camp-fire 
singing and talking until near midnight. 
‘“We were up early the next morning, how- 
ever, and after a good breakfast packed up 
and started on up the canon. Talk about 
scenery! I tell you that is the only way to 
see the Rocky Mountains. I thought I knew 
Colorado scenery pretty well, but we passed 
through country that day such as I had 
never dreamed of, and such, I honestly 
believe, as is not to be equaled anywhere 
else in the world. 
‘When we came to any particularly fine 
bit of scenery we would draw the team to 
