. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . life and strengthheld out. He drew upon the sand a map of three several courses withreference to his starting point from the lake, and considered the diffi-culties each would involve. One was to follow Snake River a distanceof 100 miles to Eagle Rock Bridge; a second to cross the countrybetween the southern shore of Yellowstone Lake and the Madison 582 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. mountains,
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . life and strengthheld out. He drew upon the sand a map of three several courses withreference to his starting point from the lake, and considered the diffi-culties each would involve. One was to follow Snake River a distanceof 100 miles to Eagle Rock Bridge; a second to cross the countrybetween the southern shore of Yellowstone Lake and the Madison 582 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. mountains, by scaling which he could reach the settlements in MadisonValley; the third to retrace the steps of his long and tiresome journeyover the discouraging route by which he had entered the first and third he abandoned after much deliberation andunwisely adopted the second route as his course of escape from thewilderness. Filling his pouches with thistle-roots he took a parting survey ofthe little solitude that had afforded him food and fire for the precedingten days, and with a feeling of melancholy, started for the nearestpoint on Yellowstone Lake. All day long he traveled over timber. A NIGHT OF TERROR. heaps, tree-tops and through thickets. At noon he took the precautionto obtain fire and late in the afternoon, with a brand which he hadkept alive by constant waving and blowing he kindled a fire on theonly vacant spot he could find in a dense wilderness of pines. Faintand exhausted he lay down for rest. The deep gloom of the forestrevealed in a spectral light on all sides a compact growth of timbercrowned with sombre foliage. The shrieking of night birds, the pro-longed howl of the wolf and the human scream of the mountain-lionmade him insensible to all other forms of suffering. His imaginationwas instinct with terror. At one moment through the thicket, he ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 583 beheld the blazing eyes of a forest monster fixed upon him, prepara-tory to
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