Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
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Graham, Texas, Wednesday, March 23-1922 A bright day. At 9:15 A.M. started south in the Wichita Falls and Southern R.R. from Tongue [illegible] to South Bend. Don't Bend. Got there at 10 in a mixed train. Then started 2½ mile N.-E. for an outlier known as Bean Mountain, where the whole of the South Bend shale is exposed. Fossils are good but very scarce. Got about 50 specimens and nearly all of these occur about 10- to 20-foot beneath the top. Of ammonites got a few fragments but nothing good. Limestone caps the outlier and at its base occurs the final limestone of the Canyon series, Lee Keysl. A whole day for little progress. Returned to Graham on the 5 P.M. mixed train. Don't Bend is burning, that is building of the Cheyenne shortly town to catch the oil men. One fire would burn it up and the Los Angeles would care for it as a dismal place.