The Great Spiked Dinosaur 101 



CHAPTER VII 



THE GREAT SPIKED DINOSAUR OF DEAD LODGE CAN- 

 YON 



On the 17th of September, 1913, George and I 

 loaded our row boat, and motor boat with our 

 tent, blankets, and cooking utensils and tools, 

 and start down the river in search of a new camp. 

 In the photograph of the scene, Levi is standing 

 on deck of the flat boat and bids us good-bye and 

 good luck. George is driving the motor and I sit 

 in the center of the boat. Notice the row boat we 

 trail behind, is heavily loaded. This was the 

 hardest trip we ever made with the motor boat, 

 as the water was low, we were constantly getting 

 stuck on a sand bar. They extended often across 

 the river. George was one to suffer, as he was 

 the only one of the two that had the strength to 

 pull it across into deeper water. When we stuck 

 fast, I got in the row boat and paddled over to a 

 deeper hole, and went a fishing, while he strug- 

 gled with his boat. It was a terrible experience, 

 but well bought, as he learned what the Red 

 Deer river was in low water, and when he went 

 on it again, in 1915 he built himself a motor boat 

 that would float in five or six inches of water. 

 While mine required eighteen inches to float it. 

 At last with George nearly exhausted, we pulled 



