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the drive to the Quinn Run
valley. Stopped and had
Dinner near this neck Station
Kept by D.B English about
18 miles from our morning
Camp. The Country Bream
The same.
After dinner we went along
about 9 miles to Buffalo Cr!
in the 2 part of Quinn R.
Valley
Monday May 31. . To near McDermitt
We left camp early and drove
Northward. Passed Rebel Creek
P.O. & Store station about 9:00
and stopped for dinner at
Millers Creek about 11. about 11 or
12 miles from Buffalo Cr.
After dinner we went on until
about sunset making about
15 miles and camped at
a creek on a sagebrush flat
within a few miles of McDermitt
Saw a "bush rabbit (Bunolagus)"
in the afternoon
Tuesday June 1. To McDermitt
We got away from camp in
Good time and got to McDermitt
about the middle of the afternoon
Got a few things at the store
stopped at the P.O. and then
went to N.T.V. Town to
find a place to camp. As all
the land in the valley is taken
up - in ranches this was
not an easy matter. We
finally located at an abandoned
ranch about 3 miles, N.W.
of town
The Nevada-Oregon line runs
through the middle of the
town. Nearly due west is
Disaster Peak. To the S.E.
in Nevada is the Buckskin
range where the newly discovered
National mine is being worked
The valley is covered with the
usual sagebrush and grease-
wood with Shepherdia along
the ditches and in low spots