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[[underlined]] Stanford to Grafton & Belt. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 29. [[/underlined]] Shot a skunk at camp in the night & caught 3 Arvicolas.

Got a late start. Traveled all day over prairie Saw a few willows on creek at Stanford. No trees. So smokey we could not see a mile.

Grass short but good feed most of the way.

Lots of sheep & cattle & horses.

Saw one Coyote & one Badger & lots of Spermophiles. lots of longspurs and shorelarks & Pooecetes.

A little rain in the night made the gumbo slightly gummy in morning. Cloudy all day & cool.

Camped at Grafton, a stage station

[[underlined]] Aug. 30 [[/underlined]] Started in a drizzling rain but it did not last long & did not make the gumbo very bad. Cleared off by noon but still smokey.

Same kind of country continued - prairie and long ridges and valleys. Passed Geyser and Cora - stage stations & P.O.

Passed through Armington and Belt and camped 2 miles below Belt on creek.

Saw a few Pseudotsuga along rocky creek banks near Armington & along Otter Creek is a good row of trees of Populus balsamifera & P. angustifolia & willow. High sandstone ridges border the narrow valley and coal crops out under the sandstone & is mined to some extent. At Armington a Sonoran element appears, though weak. Shepherdia argentea, Helianthus annuus, & Opuntia appear for the first since leaving the Musselshell valley. also Glycerrhizea.

Saw one Tamias in valley at Belt.

Transcription Notes:
"Glycerrhizea" should be Glycyrrhiza but transcribed as written.