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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Aug. 1, 1906.[[/underlined]] Left Washington at 4:30 C&O for Wichita Mts. Oklahoma via St. Louis. Reached Charlottesville, Va., at dark, Rainy, cool, clouds on the Blue Ridge. Golden rods & sunflowers in blossom & lower leaves of sassfrass turning red. [[underlined]] Aug. 2.[[/underlined]] Woke up near Huntington W. Va., and followed the Ohio River to Cincinnatti, then via Indianapolis reached St. Louis at 9:30 P.M. about 3 hours late. Took Frisco line out of St. Louis at 10:16 for Oklahoma. Good crops [[strikethrough]],[[/strikethrough]] across Indiana & Ill. A cloudy day, cool & comfortable. Some rain. [[underlined]] Aug. 3.[[/underlined]] Breakfast at Springfield, Mo., Fine farming country, slightly rolling, nearly all cultivated, small timber lots, rich soil, stony and flint land in places. Good crops of corn, clover & timothy, wheat all harvested &