Diary, 1913, of trip with Charles Robert Cross to British Columbia
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Monday Oct 20 Left at 11 30 and followed the trail down a wagon road down the Kopiout valley through poplar woods with some spruce I pine Camped at dark near Taylors at the siding of a machine who used to be on the Telegraph line No rain Camped at Ranch by Chas E. Elsbury Tuesday Oct 21 To Glen Bonar: There was little rain in the forenoon. We left about 10 and followed down the wagon road the Cross road ahead to get to Auzellis ahead of the Tram. The road led from the Kopiout valley. We had dinner at a small creek about 7 miles down as on the P.O. trail. Rain came on and increased and we reached the village below Kopiout about 5 o'clock in a heavy rain. Camped in the house of an Indian relative of Luke, named Edward. Bought a pair of shoes from which the aid man lent me to ploughed up at a depth about a foot when I made the garden a ground that had not been cleared many years and had never been ploughed before