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Day in the Life

Sep 16, 1850

Journal Entry

September 16, 1850 ~ Monday

16th A plesant morning we travled to the South Pass I here
found capt Petty & Hardy & company camped on the sweet water
Capt Hardy was stuck fast one yoke of his oxen had died & the
Indians had stolen his horses & he could not move He was furnished
with a team & we all moved on to the Pacific springs & camped
distance 16 miles we turned our cattle on to the ground of
the pacific springs it was all quagmire yet covered with grass I
17 waided to my knees in mud & water untill midnight among the oxen
to keep them from the mire

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Petty, Robert C.
abt. 1812-1856
34 mentions
Hardy, Samuel Brocklebank
21 Sep 1804 - 9 Sep 1899
46 mentions

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Sweetwater River, unorganized U.S. Territory

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Sep 16, 1850