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[[underline]] Blanco to 20 miles up Canyon Blanco [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Oct. 21 [[/underline]], A cold night and half an inch of fresh snow on ground in morning. Ice formed half inch thick. Were glad to have a roof over us for the night.

Followed up Canyon Largo to mouth of Blanco and then up it till nearly sundown and camped about 8 miles below the Indian Farmer's, or about 22 miles from Blanco. The Largo & Blanco are great dry washes through wide, cliff bound canyons, the Blanco wider and more open as a valley. We found water at noon & again at night, mere springs in the wash and at both places so alkaline as to be almost undrinkable. There are a few scattered cottonwoods along both canyons but no brush or thickets save of Sarcobatus, Atriplex & Artemesia & Bigelovia. Grass is short and the country dry. Nut pines and a large singleseeded Juniper grow on the ridges up the Largo and into the lower part of the Blanco, but up at our nights camp the

Transcription Notes:
reviewed and added spaces within the tags -@meg_shuler "Artemesia" = Artemisia (mugwort/sagebrush)