We are making a garden – the land has already been ploughed, and today it was harrowed and laid off into gardens for each Troop. It is rather late for a garden but we could not get at it no sooner.
Father Scullen came in quite unexpectedly about noon today – he is just beginning his yearly round and expects to be upon the prairie from now until next September visiting all the Indian camps.
Born in Savannah, Georgia, USA in 1850, Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt was educated in Canada while seeking refuge from the American Civil War. He would later join the North-West Mounted Police in 1874 as an assistant surgeon, traveling with them into Western Canada for the creation of Fort Macleod.
Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. early 1870s]
![Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. early 1870s]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dnEe2_ZliHo/SletK6O7QnI/AAAAAAAAAAM/H86iVH5G8gw/S230/Nevitt+Head-shot+na-2859-1.jpg)
Glenbow Archives NA-2859-1
Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. 1907]
![Dr. Richard Barrington Nevitt, [ca. 1907]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dnEe2_ZliHo/SzxP1ZfnDsI/AAAAAAAAABE/9KXtkHanL30/S150/Nevitt+Portrait+na-2917-2.jpg)
Glenbow Archives NA-2917-2
Earliest recorded drawing of Crowfoot [Nevitt, ca. 1875]
![Earliest recorded drawing of Crowfoot [Nevitt, ca. 1875]](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dnEe2_ZliHo/TTneqcvlu1I/AAAAAAAAABg/jBs6VRqpxbY/s150/Crowfoot%2Bdrawing%2BNA-51-1.jpg)
Glenbow Archives NA-51-1
Letter sample:
To conserve precious paper, letters of this era were often written in the "cross-hatched" format.
