January 12, 19 ?7 
Lest night I thought that all t ! :e packing was done, except 
for putting our toothbrushes in a suitcase at the last moment. 
But as I went around the house gathering up all the little odds 
and ends that I could not bear to leave behind, the contents of 
the suitcase swelled and swelled. when I finally had everything 
packed to the stage where not another ounce could be squeezed in 
Bill came home with three volumes of Indo-fustralian Reptiles 
and they h* d to go in, too. 
The telephone and the door bell rang incessantly. Margaret 
Gellespie dropped in for a monent, and went out on a moneyp changing 
errand. Fay came, and took me to the bank to store silver, went 
over to Sid's to get me a hot dog, and fixed a c-rrage and a 
ros : rv with equal efficiency. Pep and Deb called for us at 
qua ter to three and drove us to the Geographic, where we said 
good-bye to McFnew and Gilbert Brosvenor, and then to the train, 
where we arrived at least an hour ahead of time. 
Just as the train was about to pull out, newspapaer photo- 
graphers arrived, and took flashlight pictures of us standing on 
train steps, with me trying to show off the corsage of brown 
orchids which the Clarks had sent me. 
January 1?. 
Arrived in Chicago at 8.15. Had a second breakfast in 
the station, where we were joined by Fran, w en t to the Field 
Museum, and saw Gerhard, Stanley Field, and Dr. Sims. Ned Clark 
took us to the Stevens for lunch. Then over the Shedd Aquarium, 
where we spent some hours, partly to see the fish and Chute, 
partlv to keep out of the sleet and r^in that was blowing over 
the town. Dinner with Carl Schmitt and Charles at the Union 
Station, and departed on the Northern Pacific at 11 P. M. 
January 14 
Woke up in Minnesota. All afternoon crossing the plains 
of North Dakota, where the snow had beer: blown in ridges that 
looked exactly like ocean waves, white-caps and all. The illusion 
was heightened toward dusk, when the shadows were blue, and the 
snow looked more like sea water than ever, stretching inimitably 
toward the horizon. 
January 15 ' f^:r r ' r r^'flrr^ y , 
woke uo in Montana. Fen Reeves, Jane and Roy Spencer met us at the 
train in Livingston about 8.70. Mr. Peeves got on the train and 
rode with us 
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far as Lo, 
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an hour or so later. Pt Butte Jay 
Smith got on, and had lunch with us, leaving us at Deer Lodge. 
As we crossed the Continental Divide, and saw the spectacular 
stretches of snow-covered mountains, I wondered why Bill had ever 
left his native state. The train went through Garrison, and I 
was thrilled to see the country in which Bill ranched as a boy. 
January 16 
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. . r oke up in Washington. Heavy snow covered the Cascades, 
loaded, the great pine. trees with armfuls of white. We reached 
