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Rh It is no wonder that the Montana people are so cheerful, when there is so much beautiful sunshine.

It being the Glendive annual fair week, I noticed that the people certainly know how to enjoy themselves on such occasions, with their horse-racing and ball games. As I sat on the balcony of the hotel and watched the numerous carriages, taking passengers to and fro from the fair grounds, and there were many on horseback, I thought of the places that I had visited, and it gave me more pleasure than in any town I had visited, to see the Glendive citizens celebrate, for every time I have been here, I found them all happy and having a good time. They are a bright, energetic class of people.

Again taking the Northern Pacific west, following the Yellowstone river, crossing the Big Horn river, I come in