| July 1st Travel 25 miles Camp on Plat !Çiver
seven miles East of Fort Laramie |
| 2nd Travel 15 miles Pass Ft Laramie and Camp
on Plat River near the United States farm |
| 3rd Lay by Grass scarse their I wrote Back
again |
| 4th Travel 16 miles through the Black Hill
road verry Rough Camp on Plat River Grass
scearse |
| 5th Travel 14 miles Camp on a small Creek in
the Black hills |
| 6th Travel 16 miles Camp on Platt River Grass
scearse |
| 7th Travel 10 miles Camp on Plat river grass
scearse |
| 8th Travel 15 miles Over verry rough and
hilly Camp on Plat River Grass scearse |
| 9th Travel 12 miles Camp on Plat River one
mile South of. the road |
| 10th Travel 12 miles Camp on Plat River grass
scearse |
| 11th Travel 10 miles Camp on Plat River near
the uper ferry ' |
| 12th Travel 15 mues Camp on Plat River grass
scearse |
| 13th Travel 10 miles Camp on Plat River for
the Last time We have travel on it for seven
Hundred miles |
| 14th Lay By and Hunted Buffalo and killed
four |
| 15th Travel 18 miles Camp at the Willow
Spring No grass |
| 16th Travel 16 miles Camp near Alkali Lake
grass scearse |
| 17th Travel 18 miles Pass the Independence
Rock a rock which raises right up out of the
ground in a smooth Bottom of Sweet Water it is
125 rod long and 120 feet high We pass the Devil
Gate through which Sweet water Passes It is 400
feet hie on Both sides of Perpendckler Camp on
Sweet Water |
| 18th Travel 16 miles Camp on Sweet Water near
Bitter Cotton wood Creek |
| 19th Travel 15 miles Camp on Sweet Water
grass scearse |
| 20th Travel 18 miles Camp on Sweet Water
grass scearse |
| 21st Travel 17 miles over Rough and Rockey
Roads and Camp on a small Branch grass scearse
no timber on Sweet Water |
| 22nd Travel 12 miles and camp at the last
crossing of Sweet Water grass scearse |
| 23rd Travel 8 miles Camp three miles to the.
right of the Road on Sweet Water |
| 24th Travel 30 miles Pass the South Pass of
the Eocky Mountainsand Persippee Spring Camp on
Little Sandy three miles north of the road |
| 25th Lay by to rest our cattle 26tth Travel
10 miles Camp on Big Sandy grass scearse |
| 27th Travel 10 miles off the road to get
grass to Cross the Deasert forty-two miles
across without water or grass |
| 28th Started in the Desert travel |
| 29th all night and next day til ten o'clock
and cross Green river grass scearse |
| 30th Travel 13 miles ? Camp on branche of
Green river among the Snake Indians grass good |
| 31st Travel 18 miles Cross a verry hie and
Rough mountain and Camp in the valley grass
scearse |
| August 1st, 1852 Travel 12 miles Cross a
mountain and camp on Ham Fork of Green river
grass scearse |
| 2nd Travel 24 miles over very hie and rough
mountain Camp in Bear River Valley good grass |
| 3rd Travel 4 mues and camp on Bear river good
grass |
| 4th Travel 25 miles Cross Smith and Thomas
fork of Bear river Camp on Bear river |
| 5th Travel 18 miles Camp on Bear river grass
scearse |
| 6th Travel 6 miles Camp on Bear River good
grass |
| 7th Travel 18 miles Pass Bear and Soda and
Steam Boat Springs Camp at the Junction of the
Californa and Oregon Boad |
| 8th Travel 15 railes Camp on a small Creek
Good grass |
| 9th Travel 17 miles Camp on a small Branch of
the Port Neuf River good grass |
| 10th Travel 16 miles Camp on Port Neuf Creek
|
| 11th Travel 15 miles Passed Ft Hall I wrote
Back Camp on Port Neuf River good grass |
| 12th Travel 12 miles Camp on Snake river good
grass |
| 13th Travel 16 miles Camp on Rock- Creek
grass scearse |
| 14th Travel 15 miles Camp on Raft River good
grass |
| 15th Lay By |
| 16th Travel 18 miles Camp at Bull Rush Spring
|
| 17th Travel 16 miles Camp on Goose Creek
grass scearse |
| 18th Travel 10 miles Camp on Snake River Swam
our cattle across |
| 19th Lay By Could not get our Cattle Back |
| 20th Lay By Still could not get them over to
the wagons |
| 21st Lay By the only way we could get our
Cattle Back was to drive them three or four
miles up the River to the falls where the water
was so swift when you got them into it the water
wash them down over the falls on the other Side
the River was three quariters of a mile wide |
| 22nd Travel 18 miles Camp on dry Creek four
miles off the road to water and grass |
| 23rd Travel 25 miles Camp on Eock Creek grass
scearse |
| 24th Travel 16 miles and camp near Snake
River on the Plains without water or grass |
| 25th Travel 17 miles Camp on Bannac Creek no
grass Our Cattle nearly all give out for
something to eat |
| 26th Travel 5 miles Crossed Snake River on
wagon Beds and swam our cattle over Camp on the
Bank good grass |
| 27th Travel 6 miles Camp on a small Creek
good grass |
| 28th Lay By to recruit our cattle |
| 29th Travel 20 miles Camp on a small Creek
grass scearse |
| 30th Travel 20 miles Camp on a small Creek
good grass |
| 31st Lay By with Henry Newman who was very
sick with Liver Complaint |
| September 1st 1852 Travel 15 miles Camp on
Seven miles Creek |
| 2nd Travel 15 miles Camp on Barren Creek use
warm water good grass |
| 3rd Travel 14 miles Camp on Charlotte Creek
grass scearse |
| 4th Travel 14 miles Camp on a dry branch good
grass |
| 5th Travel 10 miles Camp on white Horse Creek
grass fair. |
| 6th Travel 10 miles Camp at a good spring
grass fair |
| 7th Travel 16 miles Camp on Boies River good
grass |
| 8th Travel 16 miles Camp on Boies River good
grass |
| 9th Travel 12 miles Camp on Boies River good
grass |
| 10th Lay by |
| 11th Travel 15 miles Camp on Boies River good
grass |
| 12th Travel 10 miles Cross Snake River at
Fort Boies and camp on Bank |
| 13th Lay By for to hunt our cattle |
| 14th Travel 16 miles Camp on Malaher River
grass scearse |
| 15th Lay By Michiel Smith very sick George
Gimple was taken siek today grass scearse |
| 16th Travel 25 miles Camp on Bench Creek
grass scarse |
| 17th Travel 9 miles Camp on Burnt River grass
scarse |
| 18th Travel 10 miles in the afternoon Michiel
Smith Died in the forenoon Burried in one hour -
after death |
| 19th Travel 16 miles Roads rough and Crooked
Camp on a branch of Burnt river grass scearse |
| 20th Travel 14 mues Camp on a branch of Burnt
river grass scarse |
| 21st Travel 10 miles Cross a mountain. and
camp on a Spring branch grass scearse |
| 22nd Travel 16 miles Camp on a slough of
Powder River Cold windy weather grass fair |
| 23rd Travel 10 miles Camp on Powder River
grass scearse |
| 24th Travel none but lay by |
| 25th Travel 15 miles Cross three Powder river
Camp at a Spring near the mountains |
| 26th Travel 10 mues Cross over a mountain
Camp in Grand Round Valley This valley is about
30 miles long and 20 miles wide good grass |
| 27th Travel 8 miles Cross Grand round Camp on
a small Branch at the foot of a verry hie
mountain |
| 28th Lay By |
| 29th Travel 14 miles Cross some verry hie
mountains and camp on the mountain |
| 30th Travel 14 miles amongst the Blue
Mountains over some verry hie ones it rained and
snowed which made the mountains verry bad to
travel on. Verry heavy timber Camp on the
mountain Use snow for water grass scearse |
| October 1st Travel 14 miles Cross over some
verry hie mountains which were verry steep and
rough Camp on the mountain |
| 2nd Travel 12 miles Pass over the Blue
Mountains Camp on the Umatilla River amongst the
Kiouse Indians grass scearse |
| 3rd Travel 12 miles Roads good Camp on the
Umatilla River grass scearse |
| 4th Travel 5 miles and Cross the river and
camp on a hie Bluff grass scearse |
| 5th Travel 15 miles camp, on the Umatlla
River grass scearse |
| 6th Travel 8 miles Cross the Umatilla River
at the Agency House and took water and wood and
camp on the Bluff |
| 7th Travel 10 miles road sandy took water and
wood and camp on the Plains grass fair |
| 8th Travel 14 miles Road sandy Camp on the
Plains without water or wood |
| 9th Travel 10 miles Passed two Springs took
water and camp on the Plaines grass scearse |
| 10th Travel 9 miles road sandy Camp at Willow
Creek grass scearse |
| llth Travel 10 miles took water and camp on
the Plaines grass scearse |
| 12th Travel 15 miles road good Camp on a smal
creek. grass scearse |
| 13th Travel 8 miles Cross John Day River
ascended a verry hie and rockey mountain Camp on
the Plain grass fair |
| 14th Travel 15 miles Camp on the Plains
Charles Spencer took the ague grass fair |
| 15th Travel 10 miles Camp on the Columbia
river grass fair |
| 16th Travel 3 miles Camp on the De Shuts
River. grass scearse |
| 17th Travel 5 miles Camp on Only Creek Rough
Roads grass scearse |
| 18th Travel 5 miles Camp on five miles Creek
grass scearse |
| 19th Lay By to wash |
| 20th Travel 5 miles and came to the Dalls
Sold our cattle |
| 21st Started Down the Columbia River in sciff
The wind Blew at night and camp on the Bank |
| 22d Started in the sciff again and landed at
the Cascades |
| 23d Lay at the Cascade |
| 24th Lay at the same Place |
| 25th Started Down to the Steamboat Landing we
hired wagon and oxen to haul our Plunder down |
| 26th Got on a Steam Boat and Landed in
Portland in the evening the whole distence from
the Dalls to Portland is 160 miles |
| October the 27th, 1852 Charles remain very
sick Died at 9 o 'clock in the morning Burried
in the City of Portland the Same Day at five
o'clock in the Evening |
| 28th Still remain in Portland |
| 29th Started for Oregon City at noon on a
Steam Boat and Landed in the Evening |
| Thus end my Journal |
| . Lafayette Spencer . |