"The morning was clear and beautiful [ ] we commenced taking some of our things over in a boat that we had along but found it to be too slow a process so they came to the conclusion to put on teams enough to take wagons over without unloading [ ] we tried the plan and found it worked well and all got over in a short time without any accident [ ] we then went on a few miles and camped on the south bank of the loupe fork"
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Addison Everett journal:
"Saturday 24 [ ] The men appointed Built too rafts [ ] others tooke out part of thare goods and carried them across in the leather Boat which others doubled thare teams [ ] crossed the river with out any difaculty [ ] the sands in the Bead of the river packing so as to make it easier for the last teams than it was for the first [ ] the rafts we Built we did not use having all in safty reached the opposite side of the river at 3 OC [ ] we proceeded on our journey 4 miles and encamped for the Sabbath [ ] we placed our wagons as usial and placed our gard on the out Side as well some inside to see to the cattle [ ] At the Brake of day some of the gard discovered something creeping up and at first supposed it to be wolves but afterwhile discovered that they ware Indians.. the gard fired at them and they arose and fled [ ] When six Indians ware discovered Lurking about the camp to steal our horses the alarm was amediatiely given By Collonel Markham to the whole camp [ ] we arose took our guns and went outside our circle and remained until daylight no more Indians were seen."
