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Show TO GREEN RIVER 51 deer, elk and bear, and found this a way of combining profit with amusement. On his excursions he would go alone, taking two horses, one of which he rode and on the other he packed his game to bring in, and was usually absent only two days in securing a load for his pack- animal. From this employment he realized the handsome sum of about $ 300 a month. It is only an experienced hunter and a good shot, however, who could make it so profitable. I regretted that I could not leave the command for a hunt with him, but that was impracticable, and I had to forego the pleasure of shooting an elk or a bear until a more convenient season, if such ever occurs, and it has not up to the date of this writing. We met on this part of our journey several droves of Cali fornia horses, on their way to the States. These animals are purchased on the Pacific coast, at a very low rate, and are driven across the plains at a season when grass is good, and their transfer to a more profitable market is thus attend ed with but slight expense. If the Indians should run off a herd or two it would require several trips to make good the loss. The California horse is not so large or so hardy as our eastern horses, which always command a very high price west of the mountains. They are known there as the American horse, in contradistinction from the California horse, or the Indian horse, which is a native of the plains or mountains. As we marched along Bitter Creek, toward its mouth, our route was over a much less elevated country than that through which we had marched from Fort Halleck west ward through Bridger's Pass, and it being the second week in July the weather had become oppressively hot during the middle of the day. But in what remarkable contrast with the sensations of our skin was the sight we beheld when looking both to the north and to the south ! For several days we had lost sight of snow- clad mountains, but again they came in ^ ; CT W, and more of them than we had seen at one time b fere. Far away to the north were the Wind River Moi ntains ay 60 or 70 miles distant their sum |