Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDICES. I. EMIGRANT'S ITINERARY, Showing the distances between camping-places, the several mail-stations where mules are changed, the hours of travel, the character of the roads, and the facilities for obtaining water, wood, and grass on the route along the southern bank of the Hatte River, from St. Joseph, Mo., via Great Salt Lake City, to Carson Valley. From a Diary kept between the 7th of August and the 19th of October, 1860. 18 other conveniences. Thence To Ward's Station on the Central Star, small ranch and store Rough and bad road. After 14 miles cross Bitter Cotton-wood Creek; water rarely flows; after rain 10 feet wide and 6 inches deep; grass and fuel abundant. Pass Indian shop and store. At Bitter Creek branch of Cotton-wood the road to Salt Lake City forks. Emigrants follow the Up- per or South road over spurs of the Black Hills, some way south of the river, to avoid kanyons and to find grass. The station is called Horseshoe j Creek. Residence of road-agent, Mr. Slade, and one of the worst places on the line iioad forks; one line follows the Platte, the other turns to the left, over "cut-off;" highly undulating ridges, crooked and deeply dented with dry beds of rivers; land desolate and desert. No wood nor water till end of stage. La Bonie' River and Sta- tion; unfinished ranch in valley; water and grass Road runs 6 miles (wheels often locked) on rugged red land, crosses several dry beds of creeks, and springs with water after melting of snow and frosts in dry season, thence into the Valley of the Platte. After 17 miles it crosses the La Prcle (Rush River), a stream I (j feet wide, where water and wood abound. At Box-Elder Creek Station good ranch and comfortable camping-ground.... Along the Platte River, now shrunk...