Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On the we stoped about 2 hours at
Bloomfield and brother Branch went to the grave yard and
buried his child that had died of the worm fever
News met us on our way up the river
that many were coming back from the Plains and selling
out their teams and going home and so the price of oxen
was falling. They had made a rush to the mines
before any grass had grown to sustain their oxen.
We started for St Joseph's on the
