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Title
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Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911
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Date
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June 17-July 2, 1911
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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Regional Narrative
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Identifier
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321301-1911
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Rights
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longer and level way around into the mouth of the canyon. Dr. Woleott
favored the former course, while I preferred the latter; but as I am nothin!
if not polite, and therefore frequently nothin', I withdrew my vlan of can-
paign and followed him over the ridge. When we got safely down the other
side, we were nowhere in particular, as nearly as we could determine.
The region did not resemble Sowbelly Canyon. Having started wrong, we
steadfastly persisted in our course, cutting across ridges instead of taking
the long walk around, and this led to a fine, rugged piece of climbing -
across slippery ridges, over rocky buttes, and down narrow creek-beds
choked with fallen trees end the drift of freshets; finally landing, after
treversing many ridges, in a fairly respectable canyon with a stream and a
road. But the roed.was unused and the stream was small, by which tokens
it was borne in upon us that we had not yet caursht up with our lunch. - -
When the early navigators landed on the Atlantie seaboard and cut across
the sand-dunes of sometime Maryland to find the Pacifie Ocean, they must
have found in Chesapeake Bay somewhat of the disannointment we found in
spring Creek Canyon. It was good enough in its way, but not just what we
were looking for. so we sorrowfully cut across e few more ridges, and by
great good fortune did in the course of time, chance upon Sowbelly Canyon.
Tor explanation of our error, note the pnhotogravhson vage 42, showing
a view to the westward of the butte west of the mouth of Sowbelly Canyon;
then exemine the photograph at the foot of page 24, a view eastward, show-
ing in the distance the butte for which we had headed on leaving the bad
lands. There is a striking similarity between the two buttes, and after
having seen that at the mouth of Sowbelly Canyon it had not occurrec to us
to doubt that it was the one visible from the bad lands.
It was well after three o'clock when we reeched Sowbelly Canyon, and
we began fishing as soon as possible, repeating in the main the program
of our previous trip and spending several vicasant hours.
Se ae June 27th was de-
Sees §=6vVoted to a drive to
i, Warbonnet Canyon, five
eee ie oe ae ate a miles west of Monroe.
Bi ee a ae eee ee Our road lay well out
Boe oo: Sar a oi ae in Hat Greek Valley,
ne GE i Neer ee eae and we greatly enjoyed
DS Ee i the view of the pictur-
esque south ridge as we
passed along several
miles of it. Warbon-
net is the wildest, deep-
est, most densely vere-
tated, and altogether
the most interesting of
the canyons visited in
Sppreaching Vlarternnat Canyon
