Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
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Oct 14-1919. Tuesday. Cincinnati. A very dark day with rain. Said good bye at Alfer home at 8.30 and spent the day down town by myself looking around at the city of my birth. In a dark and rainy day Cincinnati is not a very interesting city. Spent two hours at the Rock Art Museum. They have the material to make this a good museum, but in way they are as important as the uninteresting. Often these cases also come together that one cannot get around them. Left for St. Louis at 8.45 P.M. October 15-1919 Wednesday. Left for St. Louis at 8 A.M. Had breakfast at the station and then boarded the Katy Limited at 9.03. It is a very dark day at St. Louis, almost night and it was rain. In a Pullman to Parsons where I get off at 8.35 P.M. to change ears for Bartlesville. If my train will arrive there at 11.45 P.M. After two days of gray the day is bright and warm. All along the north side of the Mo. river are high cliffs of the Ogallian-Bellman Turn succession, weather