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Title: Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Blomfield, James
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: Chicago : W.E. Wroe
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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departed to s< t another bear trap. A mantel board eight feet long, a foot broad and two inchesthick supported on unbarked fir brackets was placed over thefireplace by William and Jay. A noble pair of elk horns, on theoriginal skull, was centered over the mantel, and between thehorns, upon the axe-hewn logs the monogram of the Tepee Hunt-ing Club was illuminated in bright colors by the artist. A sixtided table, longer than broad, comfortably heavy and solid,was devised and built by the same artificers from some strayplanks. With an under-beam of a half log. to which three splayedlegs were spiked, two from either end of one side, and one fromthe center of the other, the outward spread of each leg. fromthe downward pressure of the table top, was taken up and neu-rahzed by a cross-beam on the line of intersection. It rep-resented a most creditable bit of engineering ingenuity andcarpentry combined. In the person of Earl Counter, after supper, the plainsman The Content of Quiet Days 89
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The interior of Camp Tepee showed himself a keen and acute critic of current magazine fictiondealing with range life. The point of his criticism was directedmost forcibly against the idiom and slang put into the mouthsof his cattlemen by the author of Wolfville Days. Cowmen,vide Counter, did not habitually use slang in that reckless andsuperfluous way. In fact, their speech, even allowing for thepeculiar nomenclature of their calling, was far freer from per-versions of the language than was that of most city dwellers.It was not an uncommon thing to find men of education ridingthe ranges, but even outside of these the typical rangeman wouldbe, to the atmosphere-seeking romance hunter, fed on mag-azine dope, disappointingly restrained, not to say simple in hisspeech. Mr. Counter, born in Kansas, raised in Montana, on therange all his life, and Mr. Jay Whitman, born in Missouri, inthe West since 1881, equally a rangeman, may, it is assumed, betaken as fairly typical examples of cattleman

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