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Sep. 6 C.H.M went to town. I worked all day on specimens. A cold day - 45 [[degree symbol]] in morning. A little rain here & hard showers all around. Thunder & lightning. [[end page]] [[start page]] Sep. 6 to 30th, Have been to the Grand Canon to Moencopie. Hav'nt kept journal. C.H.M. left Oct. 1st. Oct. 1 Broke up our camp at Little Spring & I took some grub & my gun & traps & horse & went down to an old A1 cattle camp 3 miles N.E. of Partridge Spring & set 28 traps for Perognathus pincilatus Saw a [[strikethrough]] Isol [[/strikethrough]] drove of about 10 Antelope & one alone in another place. Shot a Prairie Dog & caught an Spermophilus spilosoma, skinned these. Made my bed on an old table so the scorpions cant get me. My canteen baked & I have but a pint of water for 24 hours. " [[Ditto for: Oct.]] 2 Caught 8 Hesperomys sonoriensis & a Neotoma but no Perognathus. Reset my traps & took 8 with me & set along the road in lower valley. Started for Smiths Spring & followed up the cañon as far as I could. Had to turn back where the cañon becomes narrow & rocky & steep, at 7400 feet. Pseudotsuga douglasi begins in the canon here. I found no water except in a little hole dug by a sheep herder in the bottom of the run below the cañon.
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Vernon defeats me with [[Mocncopis?]]. *sigh* -@siobhanleachman
perhaps he means Moencopi, Arizona? -meg_shuler