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[[underlined]] Cooke City [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 3. [[/underlined]] Followed up Clarks Fork & over a divide & down to Cook City a mile beyond. Then down the Soda Butte Creek to Soda Butte Station near the East Fork of the Yellowstone & camped.

[[underlined]] Aneroid [[/underlined]] read at morning camp 6850 on divide 7900, at Cooke City 7500, at camp 6650.

Came 34 miles.

Clarks Fork Valley continues to the divide as a glacial valley full of forest & parks & streams. The forest is largely Pinus murryana with Picea engelmani & Abies & some Pinus flexilis. Popple is common.

Cooke City is an old, dead mining camp in a cañon 5 miles from the Park line. At the hotel were a black-brown bears & a Lynx canadensis chained.

Down Soda Creek is beautiful. forest & parks & streams through a splendid cañon with high, bare rock walls. It is a wide bottomed, glacial cañon well clothed with soil & vegetation & timber. The timber has a fresh untouched look that is delightful but we saw no signs of game & no animals save Red Squirrels & Spermophilus & a few Blue grouse.

Soda Butte is a crater like spring cone