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Oblong folio. Measuring 14½" x 11". Screw-bound black leather over stiff paper boards. Contains 396 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 3" x 5" and 8" x 10", with captions. Good only album with chips, tears, and rubbing with near fine photographs. A wonderful collection of photographs from a camping trip in Montana and Wyoming in 1922. Included in a pocket on the rear board in a four page typed article describing the trip written by a woman who traveled with the group. It begins, "did you ever camp in the Rockies? No? Then you have missed something and the Beartooth Mountains have them all beat bar none." It continues, "Let s go back over a trip I took in 1922…The party was my husband, and a girl friend with hers." The photographs illustrate every legs of the trip showing the party at their camp site, on horseback, and holding up their catch. The views are stunning and well-composed showing the beautiful mountain ranges, rivers, and lakes of the area. She writes, "It was August 1st, and we had three weeks to bums. We started from Red Lodge in Montana and went by truck six miles from town where we picked up our pack horses." She discusses the terrain saying the first fifteen miles were "easy going" and then the following 5 were "not so easy." They stopped at Tin Can Camp after the first day, a "dandy camp ground on a mountain meadow park in the heart of the green spruce with rock creek running through one side." After their night of camping they wake early for a difficult climb into the mountains. There first stop is "Mirror Lake," now called "Beauty Lake," located on the border of Montana and Wyoming. She writes, "Now the ascent is so steep that we had to hang on to our pack horses tails to make the grade and without any warning we suddenly climbed over the top into Mirror Lake basin…this is a miniature lake which reflects every branch and twig of the green forest which surrounds it." They continued climbing after a short rest and as the terrain gets rougher, she explains, "it looked as if we had reached the end of everything… You d swear that there is no way out of this hole…it looks as if nothing, not even a mountain goat could find a footing." They reach the top of the mountain she writes, "from this vantage point you get a panoramic view of the Beartooth range for miles.as far as they eye can reach is one succession of mountain peaks, plateaus, canyons, gorges, crags, and cliffs." The climb was followed by a stay at Cooke City, "a historic old mining camp," where they visited stores and met fellow travelers. The next leg of the journey was the old Nye Trail which would take them to Lake Abundance where they would fish. They continued to Stillwater where she writes, "Next camp is at the Meadows, and here again the fishing was of the best." Finally she writes, "Now the last lap down the Stillwater for 16 miles, past Second Lake, or Jack Hawk cabin, more good fishing, past Sioux Charley Lake, and then over Box Canyon." This is where they picked up an "automobile road" and dropped off their pack horses. She concludes, "a trip that could never be beat.". Seller Inventory # 448534
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