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B. Richardson
134 General Account 122
quart 2 Little Kern River, 2 mi from Forke.
Tulare Co. California
Left camp this
morning with a 30 lbs.
pack on my back
head out the cattle drive
to the Whit Meadow feed
and thence east to the
stull bridge on the
Little Kern River. At
this point I left the
trail and followed the
river through the gorge
toward the forks of the
Big and Little Kern Rivers.
From the Smith trail along
the Cattle Drive I saw
a sets of Bear track where
one or more Bear had crossed
the trail during the past
night. Observed a covey (7)
of Quail in the fir forest
near the summit 8500 ft alt.
The first and only Kernavis
Chapman was seen on
east facing slope of the
little Kern before I reached
the stull bridge