The country is overrun with Yanks: they are camped in the woods in front of us and have already paid us several visits killed sheep, goats and chickens Our new yankees are very neighborly. They come over to see us every few minutes in the day. Some came today and demanded their dinner at two o'clock but did not get it. They went off cursing us for ( Read more... )

Today we traveled all day. About noon we came to Smith's Fort on Bear River. Smith is a jolly but one-legged man commonly known as Peg-legged Smith. His fort is 125 miles north of Salt Lake I here got a bowl of bread and milk from a Mormon woman. It was quite good. Prescribed for a Frenchman who lives here with a squaw. Saw a Delaware Indian, Jim ( Read more... )

Betsy took it in her head to ride a horse back, and Daddy, undertook to escort her on thier in a narrow path at the edge of a very steep place they meet with a company of these packers, when her horse took it in his noodle not to sti[r] one foot, but stood and received a thump behind from every pack that pass'd and whilst Betsy was in a state of ( Read more... )