Field journal, v4159
Page 787
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Transcription
San Rafael Oct. 29, 1933 range & has been since first settled. Swasey left about 600 wild horses here about 15 yrs. ago when the business became unprofitable. They have since multiplied although no one knows how much. Sheep herders are reported to kill them. The land is Public Domain and everyone uses it. Four years ago Swasey saw a mountain sheep about 5 miles northeast of the head of Sinbad. This is the only definite highhorn record of which I know. No deer nor tracks were seen today. So far the area is becoming wildly picturesque but hardly seems of national monument caliber unless we see more spectacular country down along the San Rafael river. Swasey reports that antelope horns were once found in the region. Certainly the range covered today was suitable antelope range, & there is hundreds of square miles of it.