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 When they reached Yellowstone Lake, they hired a boat and went over to the head of the Lake to fish at the mouth of the Upper Yellowstone River. Here the camera boys got good photographs of some deer and the cow elk and her calf. From this point Dr. Curtis and five of the boys started on a two days' journey to climb to the top of some mountain peaks near-by, three miles high. This was pretty stiff work and they had to sleep out that night on the mountain wrapped up in blankets, but there is a fascination in conquering a high mountain as well as an inspiring view from the summit.

Following the Government roads around the Park, our party saw it all. In the Hayden Valley they saw a herd of one hundred and twenty-three elk and heard an interesting story of how the red men got ahead of the white men in