Foot Hills Astronomical Station 8 P.M.
B. 25.50 SW. clear
T. 52.

Aug 9. Changed plants & then started with Boswell Galway & others to fish in the St. Mary's R. about 6 miles S of here. Drove down in the buckboard. Had very good fishing getting a number of fine trout & some suckers? [Dawson's ?] On starting to return missed the buckboard & waited alone some time on the bank of the river opposite some whisky traders shanties. The traders have a herd of 130 ponies got from the Indians. One of the traders came across the river to drive the