Lillian Gest

+ leave at 2 oclock. The beasts went all the way to Crowfoot glacier + a [painter?] for Simpson brought them back. 22 + Robin still missing. There are only two eggs left so I guess 22 thought he could be excused The men draw lots + it fell to Charlie to hunt them [dash] He caught up to the pack however + came in with them to Mosquito Creek camp The trail led down to the Bow Lakes where Simpson has a camp, log cabin

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

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