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Title: Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Marston, E. (Edward), 1825-1914
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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execrable ; but doubtless all this willsoon be changed. I am told that a wealthycompany has now obtained leases for hotels,and the public may hope next year to bebetter fed and better lodged than they havebeen in the past. The hotel charges at pre-sent are four dollars a day. The stage-coaches are not bad, and theteams are for the most part excellent. Thedrivers are very intelligent, civil fellows, andwhen once stirred up they tell most amusingstories. The proprietors employ about two hundredand fifty horses in the Park, and as we lefton the last day of the season, I was curiousto know what became of the horses duringthe winter. I was told that they are allturned loose on the prairie, to paw up theirliving from under the snow on the foothillswhere it Hes thin, and in the spring they arebrought in fatter and stronger than when theywent out. IN THE ROCKIES. 125 Now that nearly all the buffaloes in thecountry have been killed, very strict gamelaws have been put in force for their preser-
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vation. I am told that within the Park there is now very little game of any kind. A man was recently fined too dollars and costs and imprisoned for six months for killing two elk and eight beaver within the Park, whilst a premium 126 MY HOLIDAY of ten dollars is given for the destruction ofa bear. Let me add that there is some capitaltrout fishing in the Yellowstone River, justoutside the Park, and we had made arrange-ments to spend a day there and to sleep at^* Yankee Jims, who keeps a small inn by theriverside. Jim is a well-known characterthroughout the country, but our experienceof him did not encourage us to take upour abode in his little shanty. When soberwe are told he is a highly respectable cha-racter ; but when drunk (and he happenedto be in that condition when we made his ac-quaintance) he is a madman, and a spirituahstable to see through mountains, to boot. Onthe whole, we did not care to cultivate Jimsacquaintance, so we had to give up our daysfishing in the Yellowstone.

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