Field Notebook: Wyoming
Page 91
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Aug 20 Sunday. Camp XIV. Packed the material collected yesterday into four sacks. Into letters to Mrs. Mrs Stanton, Menifee Hills and Albion. Duncan brought in a safe trunk about 3in, in diameter which carried 75 trip. This is by no means the largest examples. Another ordinary eight trunk had 380 trip, having a diameter of 19 inches. From our camp in the back yard of John Burnett's Ranch we can see in the Southwest the Chiricahua and distinctly the San Tomas Mt near Sullivan's Ranch. Aug 21 Monday Camp XIV & XV. Everyone is busy packing the material collected. About 1700 pounds is left for John Burnett to take to Med. Bow. His P.O. is Little Medicine. We leave at 9 A.M. Have dinner at Sheep Creek by 1:30. Start again at 2:45 and camp for the night north of Toltec near Mr. Liddlepie's Ranch.