MOUNTAIN TRAILS AND TRAVEL 



By FREDERICK B. HUSSEY 



Illustrated by the Author 



PACK TRAIN start- 

 ing out for the hills is 

 a sight that may be 

 seen almost any day 

 during the summer 

 season by a visitor to 

 the average mountain 

 town in the West, and 

 it looks very pictures- 

 que as it winds slowly down the street, 

 and is finally lost to sight in a cloud of 



successful hunt for a fortune, or a 

 hunting party, composed usually of one 

 or more eastern sportsmen with their 

 guides, and in these two latter cases one 

 finds himself instinctively wondering 

 whither they are bound and for how 

 long. 



It is especially interesting to the un- 

 initiated to watch the guides packing 

 the horse preliminary to the start. To 

 such a one this tying things onto a 



THE JUMPING-OFF PLACE. 



dust, or is swallowed up by the wall 

 of trees and underbrush that crowds in 

 upon the settlement. 



Perhaps it is only an outfit packing 

 supplies to a mine, or, again, it may 

 be a couple of prospectors starting out 

 on that always interesting but seldom 



horse, as it is done by experienced 

 men, looks inexpressibly simple, and the 

 knowledge and work required to handle 

 an outfit properly often goes unappre- 

 ciated or is entirely overlooked. 



In taking up the handling of a pack- 

 train let us confine ourselves to such 



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