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Wednesday July 30 ~1879 Country rough and hilly today. Water at short intervals. good grass everywhere since striking the main unclear and road. Camped on a small spring branch in a deep gorge where evergreen trees seem to be plenty on the tops of the mountains. Game abounds in limited quantities at and around this place = Distance 20m

Thursday July 31 1879 Set out at the normal hour, passing? out of the canyon and at two miles come to the Black tailed Deer Creek, a stream of 20 feet wide flowing west to the Jefferson. Continuing over hilly ground, and camp at noon on the Stinking water a tributary of the Jefferson, running through a level plain with unclear bluffs a short distance back, timber along the banks. water poor. and derives its name from the Indian tradition of the hard winter of 40 years ago, in which the snow came very deep and cold winter continued for a long time and the vast herds of Buffalo that roamed the Country at will during those days made their way into this pretty little and were overwhelmed with the cold and fury of the storms and perished in such astonishing numbers along the creek and in the creek that when spring set in no living animals were left and the stink from the decaying carcasses rendered the atmosphere of this whole region of country so oppressive and the water of the stream became so tinctured with the odious deposits that for many years they could not drink it at all. Hence they called it in their crude Indian dialect "Stinking water" a name pretty generally adopted by the whites