Diary, 1910, of trip with George and Samuel Mixter to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, North Dakota and Washington
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Wednesday June 6. To Culbertson We left Johnson Lake (Wheatland) In the morning and drove in to Culbertson, where we put up for the day. In the afternoon we took a walk west and south of the town to make observations. We saw a good many birds elsewhere listed. The Missouri River valley here is precisely similar to those about Buffalo, N.Dak., except that the heavy timber is here mainly across the river South of Culbertson, across the Missouri; The Country is seen to be very much broken Badland in char- acter. I made reports on the Johnson Lake Country, and attended to other business. Wrote a bird report in Culbertson. Thursday June 9. Poplar Left Culbertson on the morning train and stopped off at Poplar Anthony going out to Glasgow to get located for Collecting For a tramp about Poplar falling up the Poplar River for several miles. The Country along the Missouri obtained in the valley of the Poplar for probably 10 miles the semi- flats being sparsely wooded and grown up to the usual undergrowth, while bordering the valley on each side lie the slightly rolling Prairies, grassed and with a little sage- brush, and many herbaceous Plants, a number of which Mr. collected. Lepidopyrum argenteum has young fruit.