Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
We reached Laramie on the and
Brothers Young, Kimball, Benson and myself dined with Mr Burdow
and talked to him about our stolen horses. He informed us
that our company with the ox teams lost every horse they had but they
got them back excepting five. He gave us some encouragement of
sending an Interpreter with us.
We crossed the Platte and pitched our
camp about 3 miles from the Fort and President Young called us together
and addressed us at some length and appointed 10 men to go and
visit the Indians to get our stolen horses and 25 men to follow after
to assist in case of necessity.
Next morning at 9 o'clock the first
company of 10 men commanded by Col. Markham started on their
Indian expedition and an hour afterwards the 2 of 25 men followed
leader ^under^ the command of Brother Benson but it was not long before
both companies returned having ascertained that a man had gone forward
to inform the Indians of our coming and to have them chache
up their horses
In the evening we received word that Brothers
Johnson and Little had returned on the road to us and had fallen
in with Commodore Stockton from the Bay of San Francisco with
40 men going to the S[t]ates.
Next morning, Sunday, Brothers Johnson
and Little reached the Fort with two other brethren bringing us ten
horses for which we were indeed glad for we had as much as we
could do to get along and our horses were daily growing poor. Brothers
Young, Kimball and others dined at the Fort with Commodore Stockton
In the afternoon we drove three miles
