Field Notebook: Wyoming
Page 55
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lemula. Our camp is pitched near the base of Shirley Rts at Lullivans Ranch. Just north of camp about 1/2 mile in Saw-Tooth gulch today its name for the Mountain having a sandstone ridge which gives it a saw tooth edge or separated, Shirley basin includes one the far land between The Jura. This Rts on the ne side are Tertiary on the other. Above the Tertiary plane we see a flat topped Mt. locally known as Chall Mt. Mr. Lullivan says Frege Out Mt takes its name for the time when Fremont passed through here. He camper during the droughts in these Mts got their lost shoe shoe men by freezing. Therefore the Frege Out Mts, We leave Lullivans by 2 P.M and arrive on the same level of the Tertiary plains by 7 P.M. This afternoon we travel along the Shirley Rts passing the last of the Triassic — the Madison limestone and then the granite. After crossing out of Shirley basin we come on