Lillian Gest: Journal, 1925

tripped in the stream + fell on [Ru...?] + [head?]. Got one foot wet [dash] thats all Lunch at 1 [dash] rest till 2 camp 3:20 on Siffleur having gone about 16 miles Camp right on bank of river Go swimming in a stream of clear water back of camp with Busty. others go in river further down Look at [..ap? ] + have supper. Very warm {carat: 'awfully thirsty'}. [Read?] journey to the [m?oon] [dash] by Verne abbreviated [dash] Play "teakettle" around fire. Cocoa + bed. Sun 12 [dash] Wake up at 5 for walk Awfully sleepy.

Breakfast + pack. Leave before 10. Rode Tricky [dash] Rode through burnt timber + over fallen logs. one place the horses have to jump quite high. Hope tears her stocking + her leg on tree. She rides Queenie Lunch on Siffleur in rather uninteresting place. Ride across flats to old camp of last year near Wilson's Ranch. {above the line: 'on White Rabbitt'} Tricky almost runs away into a corral

with Rosie after her. Went swimming but I didnt go in. Went to see the Indians who are camped across a meadow after supper. Met [Gussie?] Beaver + Silas [Abraham?] Peter Beaver + squaw with two little boys Jimmy + Johnny who are friendly + bashful respectively Also met Susie [Horse?] who was educated at a mission school + talked quite good English Caroline buys moccassins very prettily beaded but they had been worn

[Guisie?] Beaver has a papoose, probably a grand child. + innumerable heads popped out of the tepee. Marguerite, Louise + I come home early but the rest stay for sports [dash] our guides go over + we three joined them. They did pole vault, broad + high jumps, shot put + javeline throw played with tepee poles, string + rocks. Had cocoa when we got back. then heard a tom-tom + went + sat in the meadow.

Mon 13. Louises' birthday. Frank has a shirt of buckskin which he will pay $11 for but Silas wants 12 = Jim has good looking beaded mocassins. I washed out everything. Then eight of us go shooting with a .22 colt. I hit the target for all 6 shots + a score of 25. Indians watch us from bank. Marguerite, Barbara Caroline + Jim go to Ranger's cabine for lunch Mr. Alfred + Jim Miller are camped at the ranch