a lawless and desperate life hie a lady s life in letter voice trembled and tears rolled down his cheek was it semi conscious acting i wondered or was his dark soul really stirred to its depths by the silence the beauty and the memories of youth we reached park at noon of the following day a more successful ascent of the peak was never made and i would not now exchange my memories of its perfect beauty and extraordinary for any other experience of in any part of the world yesterday snow fell on the summit and it will be inaccessible for eight months to come tip the letter viii park � big in � scenery � flowers and an awful road � onr log cabin � � a miniature world � our topics � a night alarm � a morning glories � daily routine � the panic wait for the � a musical evening park territory october how time has slipped by i do not know this is a glorious region and the air and life are i live mainly out of doors and on horseback wear my half dress sleep sometimes under the stars on a bed of pine boughs ride on a saddle and hear once more the low music of my spurs there s a stranger heave a brick at him is said by many travellers to express the feeling of the new in these this is not my experience in my cheery mountain home how the ring as i write with songs and mirth while the pitch pine logs blaze and in the chimney and the fine snow dust drives in through the and forms on the floor and the wind and and plays among the creaking pine branches and a lady life in letter vi � them short off and the lightning plays round the top of long s peak and the hardy divert themselves with the thought that when i go to bed i must turn out and face the storm you will ask what is park thia name with the quiet sound suggests park well a lodge with a woman deer and a queen anne mansion such as it is park is mine it is no man s land and mine by right of love and appreciation by the of its and its glorious its blazing its sharp and furious its wild its glories of mountain and forest of lake and river and the them all in my memory mine too in a better than the s sense are its which play and fight under the pines in the early morning as securely as deer under our english oaks its graceful black tails swift of foot its superb big horns whose noble leader is to be seen now and then with his classic head against the blue sky on the top of a colossal rock its mountain lion with his hideous the great the beautiful the wary who is always making lakes and turning streams cutting down young cotton woods and setting an example of and industry the wolf greedy and so o u c w o � letter vm the rocky mountains cowardly the and the and all the of cat hare fox and as well as things that fly from the eagle down to the blue may their number never be less in spite of the hunter who for food and gain and the who and for but still i have not answered the natural question what is park among the striking peculiarities of these mountains are hundreds of high lying valleys large and small at heights varying from to feet the most important are north park held by hostile indians middle park famous for hot springs and south park rich in and san park south park is feet high a great rolling miles long well and watered but nearly closed by snow in winter but are scattered throughout the mountains most of them and others by the hunters or who have made them their temporary they always lie far within the flaming foot hills their exquisite stretches of pastures dotted with of trees sloping to bright swift streams full of red nor should at this time had not henry lord and the field the charms and of these happy hunting grounds with the certain result of directing a stream of into the solitary beast haunted paradise a lady s life in or running up in soft the dark forest above which the snow peaks rise in their infinite majesty some are bits of meadow a mile long and very narrow with a small stream a dam and a pond made by industry hundreds of these can only be reached by riding in the bed of a stream or by up some narrow till it on the fairy like stretch above these are the feeding grounds of innumerable wild animals and some like one three miles off seem chosen for the process of casting the grass being covered for at least a square mile with the magnificent horns of the park the beauties of all dismiss all thoughts of the for park there are mountains forest skirted feet high for a lodge two peaks of granite guarding the only entrance and for a queen anne mansion an log cabin with a vault of sunny blue overhead the park is most shaped and contains hardly any level grass it is an of slopes and about eighteen miles in length but never more than two miles in width the big a bright rapid stream snow born on long s peak a few miles higher takes all sort of vanishing and unexpectedly glancing among rushing through romantic the rocky mountains everywhere making music through the still long nights here and there the are so smooth the trees so a lake makes such an artistic or a comes tumbling down with such an apparent feeling for the picturesque that i am almost angry 