IN CAMP PEAR BOZEMAN, . MONTANA • 
Of course it was annoying to be kept indoors, instead 
of being on excursions among the mountains as we had expected, 
hut we read our papers over a second time and then borrowed of 
our neighbors. About half of the boys had managed to get 
off to town .Bozeman, where they are now luxuriating at a hotel. 
It is now past noon on Monday and the rain is again steadily 
falling. As yet we have no fires, if it turns cold we will 
yet have rather a sorry time as everything is so very wet. 
We have six tents erected thus: (see photo) 
hr. Peale and I haunt the tent in the foreground, where 
as we lie snugly in bed, we can hear the constant patter of the 
rain and snow and the really sweet music of the gurgling stream, 
which passes but a few feet from our heads. From camp we can 
see no indication of C intralion but a patch of ground cultivated 
by the soldiers of the fort. At the Post - which is a 
collection of log and frame buildings, with bloc!?; house and 
uheatre of slabs, etc. - are four companies of troops. Deser- 
t 
tions are said to occur very frequently, and judging by the 
number of ,f bo;ys m blue”, who were at hard labor under guard, 
some of the aspirants for freedom had been caught. 
After continuing three nights, and two days and a half 
tne snow and rain ceased and things began to come into shape. 
Tuesday, July 2nd, we took our meals in Gamp, breakfast at 
twelve, supper at six. In the afternoon we got things dried 
out a little, and I with young Bennett of the P.N. garden took 
a tramp over the foot hills to the North of Camp. Flowers 
