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Part of Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911

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eae | »| trip to Sowbelly Canyon
; | , , 3 7 was made. several

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known as snecious were

advanced. Among these

was the fact that the *
botanists had had poor
luck with their vhotorranvhs
on the first trin; another
reason, the vast number of
Untranslated Facets to be
found in that wonderful
region, which we had barely
touched, ete. I do not
know that anyone had the
herdihood to go back of
the returns and show up
the true reason - which,
Ry wer Re i FDA ee ee Se by the way, was altogether
IM -HeArl?) Pravie Des Creek bad Janda - ~ Pool's fault; he should
not have cooked 'em so perfectly. So everybody got into the large hard
wegon, excepting Dr. Woleott and myself; it was out plan to walk to Sovw-
belly Canyon by the Hat Creek Valley route, collecting tiger beetles for a
time near Prairie Dog Creek, getting a few photogravhs in the bad lands,

and connecting with our party in time for lunch. It was a pretty plan.

By the time we had visited the tiger beetles “" She near portion of the
bad lands, it was 11 o'clock, and we

thought it wise to move on toward lunch.

SO we nade for the prominent butte shown
in the’ ‘“Shotograyh on nage 24, which we
supposed to be the butte standing at the
west portal of Sowbelly Canyon. Round-
ing this point at last, after a longer
walk than it would have seemed possible
to erowd into the space, we were sur- —
prised to find thet the region beyond
bore little resemblance to Sowbelly
Canyon; there was no stream, and only a
narrow draw where there should have
been a wide one. So we mede our way

to the next prominent buttes east,
beyond which we believed must certainly
lie the country we sought. The ques-
tion then erose as to the preferable
means of entering the canyon - whether
it were better to climb the ridge just
south of the butte, or to take the







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