The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-23
The original Of Trampus. All the
scenes of the book were laid here


scenes of the book were laid here
about
Having Quilted. the party sets on
into the mountains and climbs al
ways higher into the sprUce-clad
heights The ran leads over Hobaek
Pass, some Two miles above sea lev
el, and separating the waters OF the
Atlantic from those Of the Pacific
Narrow paths cling to the mountain
sides, where the sellers axe has new
er been heard. where sage hens ny up
from very meadow and fish have
never known the line OF the angler
over the pass and down into Jack
son Hole. the cava1cade winds Here
Is the point In the United States the
furthest from railroad Here Is a
round. inaccessible valley where out
laws defed the authorities for gen
Grafton To the north of it are the
wonders of Yellowstone Park, to the
west the magniicece of the TetonS.
unsurpassed in grandeur by any
mountains In the world
In the Jackson Hole basin there
is a group of ranches which produce
hay and grain, feed their stock, live
sufncientunto themselves. Into this
region every winter drift the elk Of
Yellowstone Park. 10000 strong. for
not so deep They find provender on
the fats where rank grass grows In
hard winters the ranchmen sell their
hay to the government, and it is fed
to these wild creatures 10 prevent
them from starving
For days such party would wind
among these towering and eternal
mountains, clad in their velvet of
spruce trees. The fish of their
streams. the sage hens that are here
50 abundant and so fat and tender
that no other meat is desired. the elk,
antelope. deer. mountain sheep, and
finally the wise and solemn bear. Of
fer fair marks for the amateur hunts
man and all of these may be shot in
season.
Such trip would lead through a
corner of Yellowstone Park, where
many of its wonders might be seen
and go out over Sylvan Pass, down
by way of the Pahaska lodge, the
home ranch of Buffalo Bill. out
through the Shoshone canyon. where
the reclamation service has built. in
a most spectacular way, the highest
dam in the world.
A month or SIX weeks might be
thus spent. The man or woman who
made such trip would be as 1.-THE
as panther and as brown as AM In
dian at its conclusion Such a per-
son would have seen. a choice bit of
West in very thorough way, would
have been for time a part of the
life of that region entering in it in ey-
cry way. The veneer, the super-civ-
ilization, would have been put asice
and the real man of necessity deye4-
oped.
Some of these expeditions are
somewhat de luxe. There are men In
the West. the sons of ranchmen, who
are graduates of eastern colleges
the benefits that would be derived by
the sons of wealthy families, boys
raised in luxury, IL they could be Civ
en- hardening western experience at
just the right age. There Is at least
one such man who arranges special
trips for oungsters Of this sort Doc
tors are taken along as are tutors and
the pilgrimage is made educational
by lectures on botany, geology and
such studies with the illustrations
drawn from concrete objects present.
ed en- route
Down IN. Arizona there IS scnoc-
built along these lines and to 1t go
many sons of wealthy families. par
ticularly where there is a delicate
constitution to be built up. These
boys are not. however. shown too
many attentions and after they are
hardened, 1T is no uncommon thing
for them to be called out at a mo-
ment's n0ice for a hundred miles
over the deserts and mountains in the
saddle.
The plan of handling tourists IL
packing and camping parties is quite
highly developed in Glacier National
Park, except that there the problems
are simplifed by the presence Of
cha7ets, or camps at convenient in
tervals- :