Diary, 1910, of trip with George and Samuel Mixter to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, North Dakota and Washington
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Day Oct 7. Tak a few mammals in my traps and spent the forenoon hunting for specimens and food. Saw a red fox about 1/2 mile west of the Park. In the early part of the afternoon the Students Bay Team arrived from St Johns in charge of E.H. Taylor, the post manager. He had met George and Dan yesterday morning and gave me a message. We had arranged so that I can go down in a day or two. Mr Taylor gave me the following confirmation regarding game animals. Mule Deer are sometimes killed in the nearby Nats. About 50 were killed at once on the Nats near bend Muddy Fork in Dec. 1904. The larger broadhead caribou has been seen never than the mouth of Lower Blow Lake River. Beasts used to be found in this Nats just west, but have been mostly killed off. Marmots appeared in this High Nats near the river just above The Portage. They are abundant about Faurier's Pass. He has killed a white tailed (Stornigan) at Peace River Portage in midwinter. Mule Sheep have been found in the Nats a short distance north of the Portage. 5 were thus until last winter having been spared by the Indians to increase, but were drawn out of the region by wolves. The Nats not being tough enough to afford them security. They are abundant in the region of the Faurier's Pass and in some Nats north of Clear River not being far off from the Portage (at the point Big Ross). Elk have been killed just across the river but not in recent years. one was killed 9 years ago. Timber wolves were very common 20 winters ago. They killed about 14 head of horses.