"the morning cool [ ] weather about the same [ ] come 22 miles the last two days
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Some of the men in the company found a human skull today...."probably an Indian fallen in the wars between the Pawnee and the Sioux."
It carried an arrow wound scar and a tomahawk scar indicating it had been scalped. (111 Days to Zion) They have reached an area today where there are many bones of dead buffaloes.
William Clayton's journal:
"Tuesday 11 The morning cold. Wind east; Camp well [ ] At half past 9 the camp moved onward over a very nice level, dry prairie for 5 miles. Amongst the timber on the Island could be seen many small Cedar trees. At the end of 5 miles we had to pass over a small ridge of low, sandy bluffs, which extend to the river. After passing nearly over the bluffs we stopped half an hour to water the teams, and eat a little dinner, then proceeded on three miles further and passed over a creek of clear water but cannot be very good in consequence of so many dead buffallo laying in it. We proceeded on half a mile and finding tolerable good feed stopped for the night, having travelled 8½ miles today. Weather fine, wind S. & S.E. course a little W. of N.W. We have seen few buffalo today, but there are signs of thousands having wintered in the neighborhood. The country looks beautiful, soil rich, only lacking timber. After the Camp was formed, it being half a mile to water [ ] the brethren dug two wells, and about 4 feet deep found plenty of good water. One of the wells is reported to run a pail full a minute. Bro. Appleton Harmon is working at the machinery for the wagon, to tell the distance we travel, and expects to have it in operation tomorrow, which will save me the trouble of counting, as I have done, during the last 4 days. Took supper on some duck presented to Er Kimball by George Billings."
