July, 1920 
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my shoes to bed with me to keep them 
from freezing; for a frozen shoe is the 
most uncomfortable covering that was 
ever put on a foot. 
The next morning- we drove along the 
shore lines of Yellowstone Lake and 
Yellowstone River to the Canyon of the 
Yellowstone. Many wild geese were in 
the river and upon its banks; some of 
them were even in the road, and in the 
marshes close by the road. They ex- 
hibited no fear of either man or motor. 
There were, also, wild ducks about the 
river in flocks containing hundreds. At 
Hayden Meadows, we saw a ten point 
bull elk, and, a little beyond, the most 
magnificent elk I have ever seen. His 
antlers carried fourteen points, with a 
beam that was massive. Eight cows and 
four calves were with him. Five or six 
blacktailed does bounded across the road 
as we rounded a turn; and without fear, 
stopped to browse. 
In the Canyon of the Yellowstone, we 
went down to Artist’s Point to view the 
falls. There we -sat for a long time, en- 
joying the magnificent coloring, and ex- 
amining, through the binoculars, the re- 
markable designs, produced on the cliffs 
by the weathering of the material of 
which they are composed. Trails of the 
big horn could be easily traced along the 
side of the Canyon. We left the Can- 
yon with great reluctance, and drove 
to Norris Basin; and thence to the junc- 
tion of the Fire Hole and Gibbon rivers, 
which form the Madison River. The 
western entrance to the Park was 
reached about the middle of the after- 
noon; we were at Henry’s Lake near 
evening, and back at Glenn Conklin’s in 
time for supper. 
B LAIR dressed our elk meat the next 
day and then we feasted on savory 
roasts, tenderloins, and venison pie. 
The flavor of elk meat is superior to that 
of any other animal. While the flesh of 
mountain sheep and moose is almost as 
palatable, one soon tires of them as a 
steady diet. During the late autumn 
and winter, the meat of an old bull elk 
is lean, tough, and strong, and it is not 
at all comparable with that of a cow elk. 
But during the summer, and early au- 
tumn, the former is just as delicious as 
the latter. . Blair cured some of the veni- 
son that I might bring it to Ohio. The 
large muscles were taken from the hind- 
quarters and into these were rubbed a 
mixture, composed of two cups of salt, 
one cup of brown sugar, and one tea- 
spoonful of black pepper. The meat was 
then laid away for two days, after 
which, the surplus salt was brushed off. 
Next it was hung in the smokehouse, 
where it was smoked by a slow fire of 
quaking aspen for three days; then, the 
door of the smokehouse was left open for 
a day for the sun to reach the meat. 
This method caused the meat to dry on 
the outside, and preserved it so well 
that I was able to bring it home in per- 
fect condition. 
' It is surprising how quickly the 
weather may change in the Rockies. 
One afternoon, during my stay, though 
the thermometer registered forty-eight 
degrees, the wind blew so strong that it 
penetrated woolen clothing, causing the 
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