Diary, 1910, of trip with George and Samuel Mixter to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, North Dakota and Washington
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Monday July 18 Telegraph Creek Join a few small specimens and meet them at Spirit Bush day out, outfit and making arrangements for the next train Tuesday July 19 Telegraph Creek Shot a few birds and put them up and worked about arrangements. Wednesday July 20 Telegraph Creek Look some birds including kernel not before seen. In the evening made a trip to a pond a couple miles. Each visited Sawmill pond. About it were many frogs if a kind new to me. I collected 2 good-sized ones. In the pond were many leeches and small insects some of which we collected. Thursday July 21 Telegraph Creek Made final arrangements to start tomorrow. Did my tricks and closed up all equipment. Got the horses across the river Friday July 22 To 3 miles Southeast We took our stuff across in a large Canoe shortly. Horses had wandered and there was some delay in catching them. We had dinner and got away about 3:15. We made the first Camping place about 5 miles out and had to stop there as there was no other place for a long way. We ascended about 500 feet in this distance, and at our campfire, Still in Canadian Zone as at Telegraph Creek. I saw my new plants of Consequence Rubus crinitus was common as soon as we got out of the paddy. I point to the open in flowers of the thistles. At our camp, the ash poplars are common, the aspen more so. The pines have apparently been left behind. Lepidoptera here still seen at camp. Sheep used to be found on a out close to our camp 10 miles from Telegraph Creek. Dan Bimm tells me that the Tukumi triple at his cache 150 miles up from