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[[underlined]] Clarks Fork & Red Lodge [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 21 [[/underlined]] Started for Red Lodge but got only about 5 miles. Found Perodipus holes & camped & set traps & finished our reports.

[[underlined]] July 22, [[/underlined]] Caught only Perodipus & Perognathus Sunday.

[[underlined]] July 23, [[/underlined]] Caught a Perognathus, 2 Sitomys sonoriensis & a S. michiganensis, or some other small form.

Started at 7 & reached Red Lodge at 2 PM. About 15 miles all up grade. One hill took us up 1000 feet. Aneroid at camp by Clarks Fork read 3425, at Red Lodge 5200.

Camped a mile above town at Rocky Fork at 5275. Left the distinctly Sonoran valley at 3800 feet, are now at edge of Boreal Zone. Rocky Creek is the swiftest stream without falls I ever saw. The water is bright green, clear as chrystal. Good farms below town. Red Lodge is a coal mining town of 1000 people or more.

[[underlined]] July 24, [[/underlined]] Spent the day in packing & shipping specimens & getting repairs on outfit & finding out about the country & writing. Are ready to pack up the cañon in morning.