9 The Little Missouri River at one time Theodore Roosevelt traveled in this valley. As I looked at the river & rugged surroundings, [illegible] they seemed to me exemplary in a way, of its incomparable courage, healthy, bright spirit which lives in the President of our Country. The ground in the valley was completely intersected with the burrows of a great colony of Prairie Dogs (Cynomys) it was very interesting to watch the little fellows sitting at the edges of their holes, their hands crossed over their yellow breasts watching the train as it passed with their shiny black eyes. Sometimes one would become frightened & disappear instantly letting us think he had fallen over backward into his hole. As we left Dobots behind up & got further into Montana the hills became larger & of greater extent, and the gullies between them deeper. And there are the Bad lands of the West.