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[[underlined]] Up Clarks Fork [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 2. [[/underlined]] Broke camp and started for Cooke City at 7 AM. Struck west over ridges & valleys to edge of plateau & then down into Clarks Fork Valley at the junction of Crandle Creek, then up the Clarks Ford road about 14 miles and camped 12 miles from Cooke. Aneroid at camp 8900, at mouth of Crandle 6200, at camp 6850, On top of the Mts. we passed lots of [[strikethrough]] ll [[/strikethrough]] little lakes & crossed numerous marshes & springy places & snow banks. At 8000 we struck Populus tremuloides & Balsamorrhiza & other plants & also Spermophilus elegans. Saw Tamias climb trees & one down in the sage but did not kill them. Killed 4 Dendrogapus & 4 Bonassa. Saw two Lepus bairdi & passed through miles of thick woods where they are numerous. Struck Lonicera involucrata & Linnaea borealis, the latter for the first time in my life. A few mosquitoes & flies bother us in the valley but not so many as on the mts.

Came about 25 miles.

Clarks Ford Valley is a great glacial trough with scoured & rounded points & sides and along the middle are half a dozen or more granite knobs rising 100 or 200 feet that have stood in the path of the glacier until worn round & smoothe. They are hemispherical & almost bare rock.

Transcription Notes:
"Balsamorrhiza" should be Balsamorhiza (one R) but transcribed as written.