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[[underlined]] Kimbetoh Wash, Escavado Wash & Chaca Canyon [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct. 23. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Eutamias [[/underlined]] [[blank]], Hotchkiss saw one in Kimbetoh wash, one on ridge south of it 
Ammospermophilus One seen in Chaca Canyon 
Cynomys gunnisoni, A few scattered all along, but none seen out of holes.
Neotoma albigula, abundant among rocks & in Juniper & nut pines.
Teonoma [[blank]], A big bushy tailed rat picked up at Pueblo Bonito & lots of signs in the old pueblo & cliffs.
Perodipus montanus? Common all along
Dipodomys spectabilis, " " " [[dittos for: Common all along]]
Thomomys aureus? " " " [[dittos for: Common all along]]
Lepus texensis, " " " [[dittos for: Common all along]]
" [[ditto for: Lepus]] arizonae, " " " [[dittos for: Common all along]]
Erethizon [[blank]] Many nut pines gnawed by them along Kimbatoh Wash.
Canis latrans, 3 seen, many heard, tracks numerous
Taxidea common

[[underlined]] Fossil Forest [[/underlined]]

Dozens of big petrified logs were seen and one photographed in a branch of Kimbetoh wash where we turned over ridge to Escavada. There are great fields of badlands and coal & gumbo & logs were around edges of this.

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on the ruins of another big pueblo and camped in a house just below on the edge of a fourth pueblo. All four are built of stone, their brick like flakes of sandstone with one smooth face, laid in rows with face out and mud inside the wall. The walls stand in places 3 or 4 stories high and may have been higher. The ends of timbers still stick in the walls and many holes remain where the timbers have come out. Some rooms have been excavated, and most of the buildings now in use have been made from the stone of the old pueblos.
   
The bottom of Chaca Canyon is level and rich and good soil, about half a mile wide, but a deep gulch has now cut deep into its floor, and is undermining one old mound that seems to be a still more ancient pueblo or smaller building. The Indians probably raised good crops & were well protected in the warm canyon, by the high sandstone walls on either side.

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Canis latrans is the coyote. reviewed -@meg_shuler