Diary, 1911, of trip to Wyoming
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June 3. To Jackson Lake via upper Bridge & Buffalo We left the Forest Ranger Cabin on the Buffalo and drove both across Bench Creek to the Buffalo Bridge and then up the Buffalo on the North side to the upper Bridge 12 miles above. We saw a few elk small % along the Buffalo on both sides Many had crossed the Buffalos into the Game Preserve. On the North side of Buffalo is a good road just as far as we went to the Upper Bridge then it crosses and continues on to Fort Washakie. At the crossing place on the north side in Jump Meadows a wet groovy meadow bordered by the usual sagebrush flats. After lunch on this path we turned back and drove to Allens Ranch near Moran when we stopped for the night. Saw an elk or two near Allens June 4. To Upper end Jackson Lake and Rhin to Moran We left Moran fairly early and drove up the east side of Jackson Lake between the country of Consorts of a succession of gravelly ridges and sagebrush flats. Partially clothed with pined growth lodgepole pine. A few elk seen in the pine openings. Sylvan Creek is crossed a few miles above Moran. Its lower part near either it enters the Lake is bordered by an extensive Yellow Swamp. Photographed Pear House near Allens Mr. Sheffields tells me that this creek falls west to cross many below its outlet but last fall cross through the lower end of the lake. They have sometimes crossed back over the same route in early summer. A bunch of Fox G. Antelope was seen on the flats near Crowfoot about June 1.[illegible]