Advance company arrives in Salt Lake Valley (still Mexican territory at the time); sets up camp.
19th Sunday. Early this morning A company of Hunters crossed the
river to get some Buffalo cows in a herd near By, in the chase Br
Mathews horse fell with him but did not hurt him, the others continued
on & killed one cow & two black tailed deer while this was going on
the Twelve with many others went up the creek to see if they could
get the Bears But we could not find them I came in sight of 3
deer & shot 3 times at them with A coarse sighted rifles & shot over
them evry time Brother Barnham shot one of them I went a little
above & saw about 50 Antilope in a flock feeding on the plain I got
within 30 rods of one of them & shot him dead in his tracks I broug[ht] [page covered]
my horse up to put him onto his back to pack him into camp And I
laboured hard one hour before I could get the horse willing to let me
put the Animal on his back I was 5 miles from camp & walked & led
my horse in the Antilop was fat. We then Harnessed up & drove
9 miles & camped on Fourchebaise Creek 9 miles
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