[William Clayton Journal] This morning started by daybreak fishing. About half past seven the president sent for me. I came back but he was gone. President [Peter] Haws is regulating the company to watch our teams, and also go to making rails &c. The morning is fine. About 9 o'clock [Amos] Kendall, one of my teamsters brought one of the horses he drives into Camp which had been bitten by a rattlesnake. His nose had begun to swell badly. We got some spirits of turpentine and bathed the wound, washed his face in salt and water, and gave him some snakes' master root boiled in milk. He yet seems very sick. Our men have made a pen for the cattle at nights. I feel quite unwell today. Spent the day chiefly reading.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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