"17th traveled a short distance and camped about noon [ ] I started out to look for a piece of timber to make a houn[d] found a good ashe and made and put it in H C Kimballs wagon"
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His account information in the diary for work done on this day says: "17th [ ] 17 hours for H C Kimball"
They are now near Ames, Nebraska. Ames is small community in southern Dodge County, Nebraska. It lies along U.S. Route 30 west of the city of Fremont, the county seat of Dodge County. If you are driving on Highway 30 in Nebraska between Fremont and Columbus, you are on their trail.
