CHAPTER IX 



EXPEDITIONS IN THE TEXAS PERMIAN 

 FOR PROFESSOR COPE, 1895, 1897 



N the summer of 1895, sixteen years after 

 my last expedition for Professor Cope, 

 I was employed by him to make further 

 explorations in the brakes of the Big 

 Wichita. My assistant and cook was a farmer, 

 Frank Galyean by name, who lived on Coffee Creek 

 on the Vernon road, twenty-five miles north of Sey- 

 mour. I camped a mile above his house on the west 

 branch of the creek at Willow Springs, a favorite 

 camping ground, as it was one of the few places in 

 which water was always to be found. To the west 

 rose Table Mountain, a hill several hundred feet 

 high, and mountains of the same height extended in 

 a southwesterly direction to Indian Creek, about 

 four miles from camp. 



I worked for several weeks on Indian Creek and 

 Coffee Creek with very poor returns, but on the 

 nineteenth of September, Mr. Galyean, who was of 

 a sanguine temperament, announced that he had dis- 



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