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[[underlined]] Big Snowy Mts. [[underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 23. [[/underlined]] Slept cold. got up early.

Caught 2 species of Arvicola.

Started down the mountain & reached camp about 10 A.M. Killed a Tamias in cañon. Saw lots of deer & bear trails.

Reached camp tired out & worked the rest of day skinning 19 mammals. Found 5 Zapus & a lot of Evotomys in lower traps & 1 Sorex.

Moved camp half a mile down into lower park where Dr. Foster found a good spring. 

Hot & very smokey.

[[underlined]] Aug. 24 [[/underlined]] Caught a lot of small mammals & worked all day making skins & setting more traps. Dr. Foster left us for Great Falls & thence to Colorado.

Another hot day but not so smokey.

[[underlined]] Aug. 5 [[/underlined]] Caught 2 Lepus bairdi & a lot of small stuff.

[[underlined]] Aug. 26, [[/underlined]] Sunday, caught only small things, rested.

[[underlined]] Aug. 27. [[/underlined]] Took up traps & started for Ubet & Great Falls. Went down the valley about 3 miles & crossed the creek and over into next valley west where we found a ranch and a lot of Spermophilus richardsoni, the first of the season. Continued across creeks & mesas along foot of Big Snowy Mts. to west end of range & across the Gap to Ubet. - a store & saloon & hotel & stable. There is a break of about 10 miles between the timber of the Big Snowy Mts. & Belt Mts. Between is dry prairie & grassy valleys, and small creeks.

Sandstone crops out in places. It is the rock of the valleys. The Mts. are limestone.

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"Aug. 5" must be 25 but transcribed as written.