Lillian Gest: Journal, 1925

gathered flowers for table [dash] harebells, bed straw golden rod. [Dru..im.nds d...s?] wrote poems for Louises party. + tied up presents for everyone. Rangers here for dinner too. Jim makes cakes + presents are on two trees one at each end of the table. Rode Whitey in afternoon bareback. Mary Morse + Caroline H. both fall off [Getting?] back but are all right Hare + Hound chase in evening. Jim, Marg. Caroline are hares. Mary Caty, Hope + I. Charlie Shorty, Frank + Jim Miller

are hounds. Hares return on old trail + we lose track of them. Very dusty. Fine ride on Patches who does {underline: 'not'} run away with me. Cocoa. Sky wonderful with clouds, then stars lay before fire late after others go to bed. Tues 14 Rainy in am. Pack + leave to cross Sask. R. Ride Roxy as Busty is off. [S..o.ts?] + gets excited across flats. Send food + duffle over + ourselves in [bucket?]. Ten horses start to swim across + to our horror two drown.

Bert says they were {strikethrough: 'c"} caught in their halters but Jim says they were not. Walk down stream w. Marg + Barbara. + find the two horses Major + Chub on a sand bar. Jim + Shorty take off the saddles [dash] other horses are taken eight miles down stream to lower ford. Get back in three hours [dash] all safe. at 9 pm Marg + I swam before supper in glacier

stream with silt bottom Busty + Caty go to bed with curse. Caty sick at tummy. Madelaine gets water upstream for crowd. All write up our diaries together before fire. Dreamed of the drown{strikeout: 'd'}ed horses. Caty sick in night + I walked several times. Rubbed Elaine + Louise with [Sloans?]. Wed 15 Left late. Rode down Sask River to Cataract Flats. Rode Boscoe Barbara got stitch in side + I was behind with her part of the time [dash] waited

on hill above River for Busty + Caty who were behind being cursed. Lunch at White Goat (otherwise Cataract or Cline R.) where we camped last year. No Indians there. Ate lunch + watched pack train cross Cline R. then crossed ourselves. Caroline taking pictures There along trail we took last year [dash] Had [oranges?] where we crossed creek in Canyon below Silver forest + where we had