August 7 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook in Spokane, Wash.:

See squaws prowling about back doors & windows begging & foraging — a nuisance once familiar to me [NB 35 TS 25].

From J.B. Pond’s diary:

August 6 Tuesday – In the morning in Missoula Mont., Sam watched the troops drill. Koelbel writes,

August 5 Monday – In the morning, the Clemens party traveled by train about 100 miles from Helena to Missoula, Mont. Sam’s notebook:

Left Helena for Missoula. Saw in Butte, Dixon & O’Bannon — 27 & 38 years. Helena, Judge Knowles and Tom Campbell — 28 & 32 years.

Beautiful dwellings, green grass & trees. & the gray brown mountains. In H & B saw relatives — 25 years. Fine valley & scenery [NB 35 TS 22].

The day’s events are also recorded in J.B. Pond’s diary:

August 4 Sunday – James B. Pond’s diary reveals that Livy was again with Sam again on this rest day at the Hotel Helena, in Helena, Montana:

August 3 Saturday – The Clemens party (the ladies may have stayed in Butte) traveled some 60 miles to Helena, Mont. and took rooms at the Hotel Helena. Fatout lists a supper speech before the Montana Club [MT Speaking 663]. An incident from that supper from James B. Pond’s diary:

August 2 Friday – J.B. Pond’s diary recorded the next trip to, Anaconda, Mont.:

August 1 Thursday – James B. Pond’s diary recorded the day’s travel to Butte, Mont.:

Thursday, August 1st, Great Falls to Butte, Montana. [100+ miles]

We started at 7:35 A.M. All seem tired. The light air and the long drive yesterday told very much on us all.

July 31 Wednesday – After a trip of some 700 miles from Crookston, Minn. the Clemens party arrived at Great Falls, Mont. From J.B. Pond’s informative diary:

July 30 Tuesday – Another travel day, interesting as witnessed by Sam’s notebook and Pond’s diary:

July 30. In northern Dakotah; no more wheat; but grass and billowy, rolling, just the Great Plains.

Struck the Missouri at Williston D & followed it several hours to Fort Buford, a large post — 7 p.m. on the border of Montana [NB 35 TS 19].

J.B. Pond’s diary: