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Jun 4, 1847

Journal Entry

June 04, 1847 ~ Friday

4th [FIGURES] I wrote two letters to day one to Mrs W.
& one to Aphek Woodruff A. O. Smoot & J Benbow &
left them in the hands of Mr [blank]
who keeps the store & acks as post Maste[r]s. He appeared
vary friendly said he would for ward our letters that wer[e]s
to go to winter Quarters to the care of Mr Sarpee & those
that were to be deliverd to the Mormon Camp would deliver
them to the leader of the Camp on our arival. He truly
manifested much friendship towards us. Professor
Pratt took observations at the fort for the Longitude
at the fort.

I conversed with a mountaineer who had wintered at
the great Basin of the Salt & Eutau lakes & he recommends
the country vary highly for a healthy fertile country
the Lakes & streams abounding with trout & other fish

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
555 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
541 mentions
Family
Benbow, John
1 Apr 1800 - 12 May 1874
169 mentions
1840 British Convert, United Brethren
5 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1036 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1547 mentions
Family

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
We started on our journey again on the th and the route began to be attended with considerable interest of scenery as we commenced the assent into the Black Hills Brother Robert Crow had joined us which added to our company 9 men 5 women 3 children 6 waggons 13 yoke of oxen 20 cows 3 bulls ten young cattle and horses which made our whole camp now 148 men 8 women 5 children 79 waggons 96 horses 51 mules 90 yoke of oxen 43 cows 3 bulls 9 calves 16 dogs and 16 chickens. As we travelled farther into the hills they grew lofty and we began to come into an Elk bear and mountain sheep country. Soon after we arrived at the Springs 15 miles from Laramie the first company of Missouri emigrants came up 12 waggons of them. We journeyed 10 1/2 miles farther in the afternoon and the Missouri company camped a 1/4 of a mile below us

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Jun 4, 1847