
COMFORT IN CAMP. 
Photo by E. F. Randolph. 
space of fifteen or twenty minutes the carcass 
was dressed; the mantle had been stripped off, 
and we were ready to return for a couple of pack 
horses to bring in the antlers and meat. 
We had hardly mounted the horses when we 
saw another bull with a fine head about 250 yards 
away. I slid off my horse and getting the dis- 
tance from the guide, I drew a coarse sight and 
fired as the animal was going over a hill. We 
hurried over to the spot where the bull had been 
and saw faint splotches of blood on the snow. As 
we descended the hill the guide remarked he 
hoped we would not have as long a chase after this 
one as we did after the bull we hunted so long 
a few days previous. I replied that I was certain 
we would not. “How do you know?” he asked; 
for answer I pointed to a lifeless form just beyond 
lying among some spruce trees. As the guide 
stepped alongside of me, where he could get a 
view, he expressed his surprise at the luck 1 had 
had in getting two such fine heads in so short 
an interval. It was barely half an hour since I 
had secured my first trophy, and now I had a 
second cne which we both regarded as_ better 
than the first. The ball had struck back of the 
shoulder a little above the middle of the body. 
The spread of this head was a trifle larger than 
the first one I had shot, the antlers were more 
solid, especially at the base. My hard hunting 
had been rewarded. I had obtained inside of 
half an hour two heads as handsome and large 
as any that it had ever been my good fortune to 
secure. I felt like a school boy about to take a 
vacation, for I had hunted faithfully for about 
eleven days and I promised myself a rest when 
I had won out with the bulls. 
For several days I took it easy, a large part 
of the time I sat in a comfortable chair in camp 
and read novels and played cards. I also man- 
aged to work up quite a small medical practice, 
my victims being Sheffield, Charles Herdick and 
Marcus Imo, the cook and horse wrangler. The 
remedies which some people of the Far West 
prescribe for their ailments are quite original and 
simple. One day when I was starting out on 
horseback to hunt in company with Herdick, I 
noticed that he had not saddled his horse. I 
asked him the reason. He replied that he was 
‘how often one 

not feeling well and wanted exercise. Anyone 
familiar with hunting in Jackson’s Hole knows 
has to leave the horse to travel 
on foot over rough country through snow and 
up s:ippery ascents for hundreds of feet. 
Herdick evidently thought this was not enough 
exercise to keep him in condition. Another time 
Imo had contracted a severe cold which I wanted 
to prescribe for. He replied that it had come on 
without anything and it would go off without 
anything. After some persuasion he consented 
to take a good dose of quinine and a hot drink 
before retiring. The next morning the cold had 
about disappeared, but when Imo went out to 
round up the horses he had great difficulty in 
hearing the bell on account of the quinine buzz- 
ing in his ear, which confirmed his bad opinion 
of medicine. 
After I had tired of loafing I hunted with the 
dogs, tracking cougars, bobcats and lynx. Occa- 
sionally I would take a shot at a coyote to pay it 
back for some of the unearthly serenades we 
had been treated to at night. One day while fol- 
lowing the track of a lynx Herdick came across 
a No. 5 bear trap. He discovered it by noticing 
some fresh elk meat near it. The trap was care- 
fully concealed, and had he been an inexperienced 
hunter or perhaps walking along there at night 
he might have discovered it by stepping into it. 
It is against the law to bait a trap with elk meat, 
and it should be forbidden to set traps around in- 
discriminately where sportsmen are licensed to 
hunt; the permission implying reasonable safety, 
which is not the case when dangerous traps are 
set without proper safeguards. We sprung the 
trap and went on. Some men who are acquainted 
with the danger arising from this source always 
carry a monkeywrench when hunting or trap- 
ping. A steel trap which could hold a silver-tip 
would inflict a terrible injury upon anyone who 
was unfortunate enough to become entrapped, 
even if assistance were promptly rendered, and 
assistance being remote, might cause a_ painful 
lingering death. I knew of a case where a trap- 
per had set two No. 5 bear traps and upon his 
return found a large silver-tip in one of them 
Venturing rather close to the bear the enraged 
animal made a sudden lunge at him, which the 


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man evaded by stepping back hurriedly, in doing 
so he accidentally fell and sprung the other trap 
with his knee, and was caught in that position. 
The man was unable to get to his rifle to dis- 
patch the bear, which was making efforts to reach 
him. Being in uncomfortably close quarters to 
the bear and apprehensive of his safety, the trap- 
per devised a clever plan to dispose of his dis- 
agreeable neighbor; fastening his knife to the 
end of a long pole he repeatedly stabbed the bear 
until death ensued. His companion, going to ex- 
amine the traps, found him at length almost dead 
with pain and released him. 
The end of my outing at length drew near, and 
it became necessary to make arrangements to 
break camp. I had become quite attached to the 
beautiful spot. where I had spent such a pleasant 
time and had so much luck. Although I had not 
bagged all the game the law allowed me, yet I 
felt that I had obtained exceptionally good heads 
and was satisfied. I had also collected a consid- 
erable number of photographs, of which Shef- 
field took the greatest number; in fact, he proved 
quite an expert in this line. The horses seemed 
no more anxious to leave than we were, and 
occasionally proved refractory and commenced 
to buck until something was bound over their 
eyes. The first night of the journey homeward 
we camped on the banks of the Gros Ventre; we 
put up no tents but slept out in the open, because, 
as I said to the guide, I wanted to see how it felt 
to rough it. During the day we had descended 
into a country where the elevation was consider- 
ably lower. The snow, which we had seen con- 
tinuously in our former camp, had all disap- 
peared and the temperature was much warmer. 
Early the next day we reached Jackson, where 
we put up at Nelson’s Hotel.and were very hos- 
pitably entertained. Although remote from the 
regular line of travel and the railroad the people 
in this locality live remarkably well and in com- 
fort, and on reaching this point I felt I was in 
touch with the rest of the world. Although it is 
100 miles from the railroad, yet it is connected 
with St. Anthony by telephone. A musical en- 
tertainment was arranged here for our benefit by 
the hospitable inhabitants of the place, which 
proved very enjoyable. E. F. RANDOLPH. 
