Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
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
