Advance company arrives in Salt Lake Valley (still Mexican territory at the time); sets up camp.
17th We started out on a Buffalo Hunt this morning But after view[ing] [page covered]
the Hills & Plains we could not see any Buffalo cows & as Bulls we[re] [page covered]
poor this season of the Year we would not kill any of them so
we returned to camp, Harnessed our Horses & drove 12 miles & camped
on the Bank of the Platt, grass quite good, on the way I exhamined
the grave stone of A young man who was drowned while swiming
the river in the spring He was one of the Mo emigrants going to Orego[n] [page covered]
It is warm plesant weather (distance 12 [miles]
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