Diary, 1901, of trip with Alfred Emerson Preble to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region
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September 4 - Steady rains with thunder and lightning raged nearly all night. We left about 8 o'clock. And proceeded on through a farming Country to Edmonton where we arrived about 4 P.M. Set up camp near the K12 Fort. Sept 5 - Packed up everything so as to be ready to leave at any time and shipped a large chest and 2 Cases of specimens to Washington by the Dammmon Express. and took another chest 7 specimens as baggage Registered at the Alberta Hotel