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[[underlined]] Choteau to Robare [[/underlined]] 

[[underlined]] Sep. 6 [[/underlined]] Rained incessently all night and all day Staid in camp and did very little work. Killed 9 ducks of 6 species. Cleaned guns and did odd jobs. Set a few traps.

[[underlined]] Sep. 7 [[/underlined]]. Cleared up in night. Ground wet and roads muddy. Caught only an Arvicola killed some more ducks. Got a late start went through Choteau and camped just north of Bynum. Came only 17 miles. Roads soft. All prairie except the stream valleys.

Choteau is in the valley of Gravel bottom Creek, which is a good farming valley. There is abundance of water for irrigating & the land lies in broad gentle slopes. The country is purely Transition. About Chateau are Populus angustifolia, Salix c. vestata, Alums, Betula occidentala.

Elaeagnus argentea, Potentilla fruticosa in the creek valley. Not a Sonoran plant appears.

A branch of Shepherdia argentea appeared in the road but none seen growing. Fine grass covers the prairies,

The Titon Mts. seem about 20 miles distant and are a rugged, broken & rocky range with a low timberline & some old snow.

[[underlined]] Sep. 8 [[/underlined]] Started early & drove 26 miles to Robare on Birch Creek and camped in time to set out a line of traps. Traveled over somewhat broken prairie with numerous alkalie runs and dry gulches, good grass, Timber seen only on Dupuyer and Birch creeks & on them only Populus angustifolia and a few trees of P. balsamifera

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Unsure of [[Birole?]] Creek -@siobhanleachman --I think Birch. those tricky "c"s of his! @nounandverber