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[[underlined]] Ft. Custer [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Pryor Creek [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 7. [[/underlined]] Caught only Sitomys.

Moved camp up river about 8 miles and camped again on bank of river. Set traps in brush and on flats. Passed through a large Cynomys ludovicianus town & saw lots of Perodipus holes. Mosquitos are fearful. A hot day. A good many cactus and sonoran plants.

[[underlined]] July 8 [[/underlined]] Sunday. We got 2 species of Sitomys, some Lepus sylvaticus and Thomomys in traps.

To escape the mosquitos we pulled up & came back down the river to the Billings road and camped at water holes about 10 miles west of Ft. Custer. 

A hot day. Came about 12 miles

[[underlined]] July 9 [/[underlined]] Started at 8 and crossed over a low divide and down a small dry creek to Spring Creek & up it to head and then over a higher, flat topped divide that resembles the Llaño Estacado & then down Indian Creek to Pryor Creek. Followed up Pryor about a mile, crossed to west side & camped a mile farther up. 

Along upper part of Spring Creek the valley is good with splendid grass, a nice stream, ponds & trees. Pryor Valley is narrow & the bottom mostly brushy & trees - Populus monolifera, boxelder, willows, bullberry & brush. Abrupt hills with flat, grassy tops border the valley & extend back as prairie. Pinus ponderosa & a few junipers grow along the edges of valley low down on Pryor Creek & on buttes off toward the Yellowstone.

Pryor Creek is a small stream, crooked, in steep banks, muddy & nasty.