Buffalo, & while this was going on we were busy in asking many questio[ns] [page covered]
about our wives & children & friends & affairs at Winter Quarters & they
were truly welcome messengers & like Angels unto us. It was truly like
good news from a far country to Hear from our families & friends
once more. We travled together through the day And arived in
camp at 8 oclok in the evening & had an interview with the rest of
the Brethren from Winter Quarters it was truly a happy meeting
I spent the evening at Dr Richards waggon reading the papers con-
cerning the Mexican War, the Ship fever making devastation
through the land, & other Affairs through the United States
It was truly interesting day to me. distance 25 [miles]
~ Wednesday
20th The meat we had killed, this morning was divided in
camp we then continued our Journey it had much the appear
ance of a cold storm, from the no[r]th East it did rain some
during the day we travled 30 miles & camped upon grand Island,
it was A tedious cold day & night we fed our Horses on rushes &
cotton wood 30 m[iles]
~ Thursday
21st We travled 16 miles & camped on wood river fed our Horses
on rushes & cotton wood it has been cold to day 16 m[iles]
~ Friday
22nd We travled 14 miles & camped on the open prairie by A slew of
water I have taken cold & did not feel well to day 14 [miles]
~ Saturday
23rd We crossed the country 23 miles to day over broaken sandy land
to the Lou fork of the Platt & camp on the bank of the stream
at the ford it was A warm plesant day we had nothing but dry grass
to feed our Horses on at night which is poor feed to work on 23 miles
~ Sunday
254th Sunday we tried to ford the Lou fork several men crossed on Hor[se]- [page covered]
back there Horses fell & plunged the men into the water, several
waggons followed, Horses got stalled into the quicksand & waggons
had to be Halled out by Hand & it was given up for the day
the camp moved down the river one mile & camped for the
day it was vary cold & windy & a snow storm at night
which made it bad on our poor weak Horses we cut
down cotton wood trees & fed them on the limbs
~ Monday
25th
we spent about 2 Hours searching for a ford
the water was cold some snow on the ground in the
morning it disappeared after the sun got up we found
a ford and all got over much better than we expect
some of the first teams got down & had to be helped
out as soon as the road was packed we went well
we travled 10 miles & camped on the platt at an old
Indian town A company was fitted out for winter
Quarters I wrote A letter to Mrs Woodruff 10 [miles]
~ Tuesday
26th We travled to day 20 miles & camped at the old Pawnee
Missionary Station whare we stoped going up the missionaris had
been reinstated & built several buildings during the summer but
the Sioux had come down & drove them of off again we put
our Horses into A small patch of oats we went through the cor[n] [page covered]
fields that had been gatherd to try to glean a little corn for our
Horses I worked 3 Hours & got 1 1/2 bushels of ears distance of the day 20 [miles]
Buffalo. & while this was going on we were busy in asking many questions about our wives & children & friends & affairs at Winter Quarters & they were truly welcome messengers & like Angels unto us. It was truly like good news from a far country to hear from our families & friends once more. We travled together through the day and arived in Camp at 8 oclok in the evening & had an interview with the rest of the Brethren from Winter Quarters it was truly a happy meeting I spent the evening at Dr Richards waggon reading the papers concerning the Mexican War, the Ship fever making devastation through the land, & other affairs through the United States It was truly interesting day to me. distance 25
~ Wednesday
20th The meat we had killed, this morning was divided in camp we then continued our journey it had much the appear ance of a cold storm, from the north East it did rain some during the day we travled 30 miles & camped upon grand Island it was a tedious cold day & night we fed our horses on rushes & Cotton wood 30 m
~ Thursday
21st We travled 16 miles & camped on wood river fed our horses on rushes & cotton wood it has been cold to day 16 m
~ Friday
22nd We travled 14 miles & camped on the open prairie by a slew of water I have taken cold & did not feel well to day 14
~ Saturday
23rd We crossed the country 23 miles to day over broaken sandy land to the Lou fork of the Platt & camp on the bank of the stream at the ford it was a warm plesant day we had nothing but dry grass to feed our horses on at night which is poor feed to work on 23 miles
~ Sunday
24th Sunday we tried to ford the Lou fork several men crossed on hor[se] back there horses fell & plunged the men into the water, several waggons followed, horses got stalled into the quick sand & waggons had to be halled out by hand & it was given up for the day the Camp moved down the river one mile & camped for the day it was vary cold & windy & a snow storm at night which made it bad on our poor weak horses we cut down cotton wood trees & fed them on the limbs
~ Monday
25th [FIGURE] we spent about 2 hours searching for a ford the water was cold some snow on the ground in the morning it disappeared after the sun got up we found a ford and all got over much better than we expect some of the first teams got down & had to be helped out as soon as the road was packed we went well we travled 10 miles & camped on the platt at an old Indian town. A company was fitted out for winter Quarters I wrote a letter to Mrs Woodruff 10
~ Tuesday
26th We travled to day 20 miles & camped at the old Pawnee Missionary Station whare we stoped going up the missionaris had been reinstated & built several buildings during the summer but the sioux had come down & drove them of off again we put our horses into a small patch of oats we went through the corn fields that had been gatherd to try to glean a little corn for our horses I worked 3 hours & got 1 1/2 bushels of ears distance of the day 20
