Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 67
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November 1 Saturday. Muskogee. Bryan called me at 6.30 A.M. to say that One Coy wanted to see at Tulsa and that he was on his way to testify in a law suite in New Mexico. He boarded the 7:30 train and came at Tulsa at 10.45. We met McCoy at the Tulsa Hotel and dined with him until 1.45 P.M. I left Tulsa for Muskogee at 4 P.M. in the Midland Valley and got to Muskogee at 7 P.M. McCoy wanted to arrange plans for a new trip, and after we had dined, I told him that the weather and other things were against my doing desirable work, and that I had better cut the trip short. I then took McCoy to myself and finally told him that I could not work out the problem simply because Bryan had not done the work, or because the weather did not permit me to see the localities in succession so that I could understand the faunas. Also told McCoy that Bryan was utterly incapable of solving the faunal problem, because he was not a county in which he could live. She has no patience to think for fossils on a day's start. Then I said that Bryan did not do the localities justice in making extensive collections. He looks a few minutes and then goes to wander around