Travel Letters: Canadian Rockies, Hiking + Painting

{center top} 11. feud? them for really they do lead a life requires as [?] nerve as any one could have. Nearly all of them have last several [?] by having them cut off with ropes when they were [?] calls. It was lots of fun and after staying there a while Pete Ethel and I went off for supper Paddy Ryan [?] us later and then we gave in [?] their [?] up and checked into the hotel again, getting to same room. Every time we went into the [?] grounds we would have to pay so much for the care and for each of us so we four [?] [?] what we would do. Ethel and Paddy having passes. We comtemplated [?] the bags in front and

{center top} 12. Ethel and I would get under the cover in back but we weren't quite sure how we would make our appearance [?] under the cover after we had gotten by the gate. They were sure some of the bags would have [?] passes and so Ethel and Paddy went to look and returned with a pass for me and a button for Pete that each of the cowboys wear [?] them to go through the gates any time. So Pete pinned on this button well the name Feruie? [Calfau struckout] Heibbard Colfau? Washington [?] across it. We undid half of the cover and Paddy sat with Ethel in back telling Pete to drive right through the gate. The man must have [?] the passes weren't ours and that Pete wasn't Feruie Hubbard or we

Stamp [top left corner, crest shaped stamp reading CANADIAN PACIFIC BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL small round drawing of man with headdress, BANFF ALBERTA CANADA below crest] {center top} 13 had gone through the same gate three times before. He never said anything but punched Ethels and my pass and then said "Any one else under the cover" and he looked. How would it hace been if when we pulled the cover back Ethel and I would have appeared. He was really [?]. We stayed with [?] [?] was over and Paddy loved it. My he was [?]. Pete took the passes and got seats by paying 25 cents more and we sat in the second row right in front. It pays to be a cow boy at a Stampede Then we went to Ethels for coffee and it was after midnight we we got back.

{center top} 14. The next morning we left before we ran into any one I thought [?] [?] the press representative here back with us. Then we started getting packed after lunch for this trip of ours. The MacDonagh [?] for tea and stayed until [?]. We went our to supper and then Barbara and her mother come over and then Dorothy White and her sister to see the house [?]. Then Francis Janies? and Murry called and it was after twelve again when we went to bed. Today we packed [?] all morning came up here at 4 and then after taking the [?] [?] to the house we were so excited we [?] of stayed on [?] wanted us to stay for supper so we did. Then while Pete listened to [?] [?] I wrote this to you. Now

{center top} 15. its nice and they have just come to sat we are going to the movies. Its really an awfully good way to live I ought to fgo have water the trees make mosquitoe nets. Need stocking get ready a bit for an easy start tomorrow but it doesn't seen to matter if we don't do it with until the movies it certainly makes one take things easily and after all worrying doesn't help.

We are going to stop at Castle [?] Saturday and I will try to write you from there.

Loads of love as I must tear? Do [?] we how you and Aunt? [?} are and all the babies. [?] love Catharine