J.I. Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary June 29 Crooked R., 3400-ft., at mouth of Bear Cr., Crooke Co., Oregon. We inquire as to camping sites at The Way Ranch on the Crooked River. We took the "Post-Paulina" road (which is maintained by the county), which is marked "24 miles-Post", running southeasterly towards this town. When we reached the road following the Crooked River, we turned right to the Way Ranch. Mr. D. Johnson inquired here and talked with an elderly gentleman living a mile west of this ranch who has lived in this immediate vicinity 59 years. He told that he thought he remembered an expedition with a similar purpose passing through here many years ago but he remembered no names or no places they collected. [E.A. Preble] collected in this canyon in 1897. We continued westward along this road to where it joins Oregon Highway "27", where we made camp at this locality above. This spot is 21 miles by highway "27" S.E. Prineville. This highway follows along the river canyon and is very probably the way Preble came and most likely very near where he collected Peromyscus truei 20 miles S.E. Prineville along the Crooked River. I set 83 traps in the basaltic boulders and junipers on the hills at the southwest corner of the junction of Bear Creek and Crooked River. Specimens caught included Peromyscus maniculatus 7 (5?, 2?), Peromyscus truei 1 (?),