We Explore Dead Lodge Canyon 49 



CHAPTER IV 



WE BXPLOEE DEAD LODGE CANYON 



We reached DrumlieUer, where we purchased 

 from Mr. Moore of the same place a five-horse 

 power motor boat ; we also built a flat boat 12 feet 

 by 28 feet. We pitched two tents on deck, one for 

 sleeping in, the other for a kitchen. Jack McGee 

 and I went aboard. We threw a rope to Charlie 

 in his motor boat, which he fastened to a post 

 on the small deck behind. Some kindly hand 

 pushed us off into the stream, Charlie got up 

 power and dragged us into the current. The 

 women and children were on hand to see us off. 

 Our motor boat under Charlie's management 

 went chug, chug, down the river at the rate of 

 five miles an hour. The water was at full flood, 

 covered with drift wood and floating logs, but 

 we rapidly passed them. Levi had taken the 

 team and wagon over the rough road to Steve- 

 ville. As we swiftly glided along, the table 

 buttes, haystack-like mounds, and long naked 

 ridges that mark out the exposures of the Ed- 

 monton Series, were in full view on either side. 

 The heads of ravines, under the prairie level were 

 packed with clumps of aspen and other trees, as 

 was the narrow flood plain and scattered islands 



