Field Notebook: Wyoming
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Aug 18 Friday, Camp XIII & XIV. Started for the Little Medjugia River were on the John Burnett ranch. Arrived about 10 p.m. on the old Oger Ranch. Collected plants in the afternoon. The hills around our camp have a very coarse conglomerate of granite derived from the granitic hills a very short distance away. In this conglomerate are very small bits of bone of Titanotherium. See the old Miocene shore line with the track stem marks, granite fragments derived from the cliffs against which dashed the sea. Aug 19 Saturday, Camp XV. This morning we start out for "Shee-mee Hills" about 2 miles N.E. of camp. In some places these hills are covered with ancient quarries which the Red Men used to secure his flints. One finds numerous spalling and an occasional rough blade. Here on these hills are found numerous beautiful calcedonic or quartz jaspers or rather agates along with much magnesian and moss agates, Banded Jasper also. All of my unlabelled Shee-mee's are from this hill. On these hills I found Seminalis Sultileta Eumorphalus, Myalium and