Geological Paper's. 219 



STILL IN THE LARAMIE COUNTRY, CONVERSE 

 COUNTY, WYOMING. 



' By Charles H. Sternberg, Lawrence. 



T LEFT Lawrence the 11th of July to join my three sons, who 

 -*- had established a camp at Horseshoe Bend, on the Cheyenne 

 river. I traveled by rail to Lusk, Wyo., and then by hack to War- 

 ren, in the heart of the Laramie, fifty-eight miles north. The camp 

 was located among the pines, twenty miles north of Warren post 

 office. The heat was so severe that all in camp suffered much from 

 its effects. The Cheyenne river at this point makes a horseshoe 

 bend, and for half a mile ravines cut back in the center of the arc 

 and gradually become shorter. The country here is cut up with 

 canons and deep gorges, with rough, serrated ridges or buttes be- 

 tween, almost entirely denuded of vegetation. The gorges are fully 

 600 feet deep, and expose to view nearly the entire series of the 

 Laramie fresh- water deposits. A short distance to the northwest 

 these are overlaid by the Fort Union beds, while below is the Fox 

 Hills Cretaceous formation. 



When I reached camp I learned that George had found a fine 

 skeleton of the duck-billed dinosaur Trachodon. It consisted of 

 the entire caudal series of' eighty-seven vertebrae, having a length 

 of fourteen feet three inches. The sacrum, three feet and four 

 inches long, consisted of nine united vertebrae. The entire pelvis 

 was in position, except one illium, with hind limbs that lacked but 

 one inch of being eight feet long. There were also sixteen con- 

 tinuous ribs, half of the head, and part of the fore limbs. 



This specimen has been sent to the National Museum of France. 

 One might go into detail and speak of the great diflBculties encoun- 

 tered before we finally succeeded in removing this specimen from 

 the rough region in which it had been entombed, but to enumerate 

 all this would be wearisome. Although greatly hampered by the 

 heat, I was fortunate enough to find three skulls of Triceratops, 

 and George found one. The one discovered by my son consisted 

 of a most beautiful and perfect fringe, five feet across and three 

 feet deep; all the back portion of the head was present, and part of 

 the horn cores. This specimen has been opened in the Sencken- 

 berg Museum, Frankfurt, and greatly pleases the director. Doctor 

 Dreverman. The second skull for the season I found on the main 

 Schneider creek, just above the cabin of Mr. Nelson, who has a 



