Diary, 1911, of trip to Idaho and Wyoming
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April 14 To near Victor Idaho We left Birchers quite early and Kept on down the Canyon. The night was clear. The snow at Birchers and for several mile below was several feet deep but as we descended the road became bare in places, and for the last few miles we had to pull the sleds over mud we reached The Stevens ranch about 1 o'clock. Then the boys went to change from sleds to wagons. After dinner we changed the loads, lifting the wagon bodies loads, and all with a derrick and putting them on the wheels. It was sunburn when we finished. Don brother Martin a short distance below Birchers. In the wooded non-balcony Trail Creek at Stevens for many hocks of Snowshoe rabbits April 15 To Hayden Left Stevens ranch and followed the road which was mostly dry and a place dirty past Victor and from then to Driggs about 56 miles from St Anthony. Then we had dinner, and gave the horses and elk a feed. Then we left the road again and reached Hayden 35 miles from St Anthony in the evening. For a good many ground squirrels, and one chipmunk