REPGET OF LIEUT. COI. JAMES F. GREGORY. 



Headquarters Military 



Division of the Missouri, 



Chicago, III, October 19, 1882. 



General: I have the honor to submit the- accompanying journal of 

 the trip made by me pursuant to your instructions in July last from the 

 Union Pacific Railroad at Rawlins to Fort Washakie, and of the trip 

 made by yourself and party from Fort Washakie along the valleys of 

 the Wind, Gros Ventre, and Snake Rivers, through the Yellowstone 

 National Park, across the Clark's Fork divide of the Rocky Mountains, 

 over the Bear Tooth range of mountains, and down the valley of Clark's 

 Fork of the Yellowstone to the terminus of the Northern Pacific Rail-* 

 road, 12 miles west of Billings, Mont. 



A map of Yellowstone National Park, Big Horn Mountains, and ad- 

 jacent territory, with our trail camps, &c, marked upon it, is inclosed 

 herewith. 



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JAMES F. GREGORY, 



Lieutenant' Colonel and Aid-de-Camp. 



Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, U. 8. A. 



journal. 



Pursuant to instructions given me by the Lieutenant-General, I left 

 Chicago on the 10th of July last, with two men and the camp equipage, 

 supplies, &c, intended for the use of the general's party from the time 

 of their arrival at Washakie. 



I arrived at Rawlins about midnight on the 12th and left there on the 

 afternoon of the 13th. My transportation consisted of a four-mule 

 spring wagon, four army wagons, four saddle mules, and two horses, 

 tinder charge of Mr. George Fisher, wagon-master. One sergeant and 

 four privates of the Fourth Infantry composed my escort. We traveled 

 by the road, over which supplies are hauled by the contractors from 



hakie, and by which the Indian goods are also 



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transported to the agency there. 



We arrived at Fort Washakie on the 19th of July, having made six 

 camps en route, viz, Springs, Lost Soldier Creek, Crook's Gap, Sweet- 



