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CHAPTER X 



IN THE MILK RIVER COUNTRY 



Charles M. Sternberg went ahead of my ex- 

 pedition to Milk River Station in southern Al- 

 berta, exploring on horseback a great stretch of 

 country along the Milk River divide, and east 

 seventy miles, or more, where the great gorge of 

 Milk River cuts a gash five hundred feet into the 

 Belly River Series. Levi and his assistant Gus- 

 tav Lindblad, also went ahead, and secured our 

 team and outfit from near Drumheller, Alberta, 

 and made the long journey by wagon, so when I 

 reached Milk River Station, I found both boys 

 waiting for me. From Charlie's report I became 

 convinced that we had come into barren ground. 

 I also found that the so-called Belly River Series 

 of Dawson, who likened it to "an island in sea of 

 drift'' was not on Canadian soil, but in the Black 

 Foot Agency Reserve in Montana, where Mr. Gil- 

 more, of the National Museum had discovered 

 new trachodonts, and horned dinosaurs. As I 

 had no authority to visit and collect in this rich 

 field I was obliged to give it up. I was so near, 

 and yet owing to red tape, so far, from a field I 

 had come to explore; expecting to find it on as 

 Mr. Dawson believed, on Canadian soil. I have 

 since learned from Mr. Brown, the Associate 



