Title
Bailey, V. O., Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming, May 1894 - September 1894
Related Titles
Contained In:
Mammal Section, Bird and Mammal Labs, Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, Division of Mammals
Series:
SIA Acc. 12-443
Series:
Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history
By
Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942
Type
Book
Material
Archival material
Publication info
1894
Notes
The journal documents Vernon Orlando Bailey's collecting mammal and bird specimens in Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming, May 4 - September 14, 1894. Entries are dated and describe travel and specimen collecting. Pages are often headed with destination, in ranges. Details include routes, methods of travel, daily activities and times of day, terrain (including altitude), vegetation (type and abundance), observed wildlife, specimens collected per day (type and quantity), travel expenses, weather, interactions with local officials (by name), campsites, collecting methods. Includes a sketch of campsite in landscape. Additional location information includes names of rivers and peaks. At the end of the notebook is a list of distances traveled per date (no location listed). Locations includes O'Neill, Valentine, Nebraska; Newcastle, Rapid City (state unidentified); Sundance, Devil's Tower, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming; Fort Custer, Big Snowy mountains, Yellowstone National Park, Montana; Pryor mountains.
Subjects
Big Snowy Mountains
,
Botany
,
Field notes
,
Fort Custer (historical)
,
Mammalogy
,
Montana
,
Nebraska
,
Nevada
,
Ornithology
,
Pryor Mountains
,
Sketches
,
South Dakota
,
Sundance
,
United States
,
Valentine
,
Wyoming
,
Yellowstone National Park
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.139035
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