Diary, 1910, of trip with George and Samuel Mixter to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, North Dakota and Washington
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Thursday July 28: 2nd S. Fork We crossed the rimi and got the horses across all right. We got away at 7.30. In followed the contour sometimes hard to climb the hill because of the high rate army the trail. We found several families of muffed grione in the valley and shot a 9. The Trail finally left and crossed a very high ridge and then descended a steep meloni and passed through a many spruce forest, where I took a photo the from niches the main stream again and then ascended a tributary a few miles, where we camped at about 6.30 with tent in it and a small camp. From here south we have the best run yet of a big Mt. Shep Mt. (Mt. 14,325) (relating to the traverse east) of the Indians (Oakhams) This is S. of Buckley Lake and is not the same as the Shep Mt. of the S. Fork. I see the snow on it. Tells me that there are no bears in Chief Mt. but used to be many but sheep and goats as on a smaller Mt. just across, the alpine was as on. But saw 36 goats in one band [illegible] shot by Simons about 10 miles Friday July 29: To Head Joa-git Creek We put a good start and made a good day reached near the head of the creek, on which we camped. Our camp lay at first on the top of the poplar ridge which bordered the valley. Then we descended out after a few miles crossed the creek and then traversed on a narrow money valley. Thence the trail entered a forest of pines with a pond, a small lake which was full of Trout. Salmon my kind of which we caught some. The lake is called La-Tee-Three Twenty Fresh Lake. A mile five beyond we camped on a plain and poplar flat, with good feed and close to the once-called Mito. We saw two wolves in the valley of the Joa-git. Dan Dorman tells me that he saw 15 wolves in one day at a Ranch in the Stekens about 100 miles up from Telegraph Creek. about 15 miles near Head Iskat