as A body were Armed & that we knew them & had fed them & treated
them kindly while on our way to the valley. the old chief then proposed
that we smoke the pipe of peace. And also said that if our chief pointing
to President Young would go to their camp they would smoke with him
& give him up the Horses which his men had taken But Brother Young did
not feel well & we did not think it prudent for him to go, while in this
conversation Br Kimball who had been out on the chase after the Horses
returned bare Headed (Having droped his hat) was accompanied by Br Benso[n] [page covered]
& in riding into camp rushed his horse through the midst of the Indians
& they fearing some treachery or that He was an enemy coming upon them
in their rear, they instantly leaped upon their Horses, scattered & rushed from
the camp some runing into the creek all appeared in great fright. But as soon
as they saw there was no evil at hand they returned & took their places &
had A harty laugh at their fright. Br Kimball volenteered to accompanied
the chief into his camp in the place of Br Young that we might get our
Horses I volunteered & Also Stephen Markham to go with Br Kimball
on the expedition so we three mounted our Horses & set out accompanied
by a Frenchman (who could speak a little sioux language) & the Indians to
find their camp; they told us it was one mile we travled 7 miles over
Bluffs & valleys & came in sight of their camp some 3 miles from us
moving towards us. so we called a halt & waited for them to come up
they came & pitched about 100 lodges & their was about 600 Indians
many women & children & they brought with them about 1000 Horses &
mules nearly all of them we supposed were stolen from emigrants &
& other tribes. their encampment presented quite a grand, interesting & amusing
scenery among their Horses we readily discoverd ours which was stolen
the night we camped we camped with Br Grants company we lost
49 that night which they had among their number. The old chief called
the war chiefs & placed them on his left hand & ourselves on his right & set down
upon the grass & filled A long pipe with Kennickenick & smoked & passed it
to his chiefs they smoked & passed it to us we also smoked He then pointed to
us to pick out our Horses which we undertook to do but found it no easy
task to pick out 7 or 8 Horses scattered through one thousand others for
one or two miles up & down the creek however after a laborious search
we got all but two that was stolen this morning. We then spoke to him
about the 49 Horses which they had stolen from us before, they ackn
owledged they had got the Horses & gave us some incouragement of
letting us have them when they got to Laramie but would not let us
have them then they however let us have one of them ownly the
brethren brought about 3 bushels of salt as a present to him we then
returned to camp with our Horses, which ended the business of the
day the camp did not move but few rods I travled about 18 m
It rained some during the night

September 22, 1847 ~ Wednesday

22nd A cool rainy morning it seemed to be the equenoxial stomr tho[u]gh [page covered]
not vary tedious we thought it wisdom to leave the ground &
continue our Journey we travled 18 miles & camped on Bitter
Creek we had but little grass but plenty of water 18 mile

September 23, 1847 ~ Thursday

23rd We travled to day 30 miles & camped at night at the wa[rm] [page covered]
spring we did not get through untill 9 oclok at night the moon
shone most Briliantly we took our Horses forward to the spring to
water them & then drove our waggons on the South road half a mile.
Camped for the night found some bunch grass for our horses 30 m[iles]

September 24, 1847 ~ Friday

24 We rode to Laramie Br Young Kimball Benson & myself dined
with Mr Burdow we talked with Him about our stolen Horses
He informed us that our company with the ox teams lost every Horse

as a body were armed & that we knew them & had fed them & treated them kindly while on our way to the valley. the old Chief then proposed that we smoke the pipe of peace. And also said that if our chief pointing to President Young would go to their Camp they would smoke with him & give him up the horses which his men had taken but Brother Young did not feel well & we did not think it prudent for him to go, while in this conversation Br Kimball who had been out on the chase after the horses returned bare headed (having droped his hat) was accompanied by Br Benson & in riding into camp rushed his horse through the midst of the Indians & they fearing some treachery or that he was an enemy coming upon them in their rear, they instantly leaped upon their horses, scattered & rushed from the camp some runing into the creek all appeared in great fright. But as soon as they saw there was no evil at hand they returned & took their places & had a harty laugh at their fright. Br Kimball volenteered to accompanied the Chief into his camp in the place of Br Young that we might get our horses I volunteered & also Stephen Markham to go with Br Kimball on the expedition so we three mounted our horses & set out accompanied by a Frenchman (who could speak a little sioux language) & the Indians to find their Camp; they told us it was one mile we travled 7 miles over Bluffs & valleys & came in sight of their Camp some 3 miles from us moving towards us. so we called a halt & waited for them to come up they came & pitched about 100 lodges & their was about 600 Indians many women & children & they brought with them about 1000 horses & mules nearly all of them we supposed were stolen from emigrants & & other tribes. their encampment presented quite a grand, interesting & amusing scenery among their horses we readily discoverd ours which was stolen the night we camped we camped with Br Grants Company we lost 49 that night which they had among their number. The old Chief called the war Chiefs & placed them on his left hand & ourselves on his right & set down upon the grass & filled a long pipe with Kennickenick & smoked & passed it to his Chiefs they smoked & passed it to us we also smoked he then pointed to us to pick out our horses which we undertook to do but found it no easy task to pick out 7 or 8 horses scattered through one thousand others for one or two miles up & down the creek however after a laborious search we got all but two that was stolen this morning. We then spoke to him about the 49 horses which they had stolen from us before, they ackn owledged they had got the horses & gave us some incouragement of letting us have them when they got to Laramie but would not let us have them then they however let us have one of them ownly the brethren brought about 3 bushels of salt as a present to him we then returned to camp with our horses, which ended the business of the day the Camp did not move but few rods I travled about 18 m It rained some during the night

September 22, 1847 ~ Wednesday

22nd A cool rainy morning it seemed to be the equenoxial stomr though not vary tedious we thought it wisdom to leave the ground & continue our journey we travled 18 miles & camped on Bitter creek we had but little grass but plenty of water 18 mile

September 23, 1847 ~ Thursday

23rd we travled to day 30 miles & camped at night at the warm spring we did not get through untill 9 oclok at night the moon shone most briliantly we took our horses forward to the spring to water them & then drove our waggons on the South road half a mile. Camped for the night found some bunch grass for our horses 30 m

September 24, 1847 ~ Friday

24 we rode to Laramie Br Young Kimball Benson & myself dined with Mr Burdow we talked with him about our stolen horses He informed us that our company with the ox teams lost every horse