. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . de man-ifest, by the hand of Nature herself. Among the relics of early days in Gallatin County noted atPeters, was a pair of buffalo horns mounted on the frontal plateof the original skull, twelve inches between the base of thehorns, twenty-one and one-half inches wide between the incurv-ing tips, and each horn twelve inches in circumference at thebase. Peter kindly offered to give the artist the horns. Grayling post-office serves a com-munity of a dozenscattered ranches ly-ing
. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . de man-ifest, by the hand of Nature herself. Among the relics of early days in Gallatin County noted atPeters, was a pair of buffalo horns mounted on the frontal plateof the original skull, twelve inches between the base of thehorns, twenty-one and one-half inches wide between the incurv-ing tips, and each horn twelve inches in circumference at thebase. Peter kindly offered to give the artist the horns. Grayling post-office serves a com-munity of a dozenscattered ranches ly-ing in the Madisonbasin, each a mile orso from its neighbor,and the farthestperhaps half a dozen miles away from the postoffice. It takescare also of mail of all kinds coming for prospectors, surveyors,hunters, guides, construction engineers and camps, and such likemiscellaneous temporary sojourners and passersby within its fieldof service. The mail service, regular enough in the summer andfall—there is no spring—summer comes with a rush and a bang—is sometimes interrupted for weeks at a time in the winter by. three times a week {in good weather . Monida being the nearestrailroad postoffice to which there is train service twelve monthsin the year. A temperature of fifty degrees below zero is notuncommon, and though in still, dry air. more common in thewinter than not. this is bearable, yet the raging fierceness of astorm driven by the thousand-edged wind that comes off theheights about the valley is something the flat-dweller, wrappedabout in artificial warmth, can only dimly surmise. Walking back to camp, the artist made note of the changingbeauty of color shown by the sagebrush. In a steady light locallyof a pale greenish gray . in wide areas it responds to the sky above,and the changing angle of the sunlight almost as water late afternoon with the sun an hour from the Occident, the uppertuft
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