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72.  [[underline]] April 28 [[/underline]] Left the J K Ranch at 6:30 and reached the Circle Ranch, 30 miles above, at noon.  In afternoon went 6 miles farther up to Mr. Carsons ranch and talked wolves with the nephew of Kit Carson, who has had considerable experience in finding wolf dens.  He showed me a strip of rocky foothills back of his ranch where he had found 11 wolf dens.  

I photographed the sections of mountains  & foothills and also the badlands across the Wind River from his house, yellow & brick red walls, curiously carved by the water.  Mr. Carson says he has found from 5 to 9 wolf pups in a den, usually in natural cavities under ledges or big boulders, but some in burrows he thinks the wolves have dug.  Some of the dens were up at the edge of the timber on the mountain slopes.