[William Clayton Journal] This morning it is fair but cold and windy. The ground is frozen stiff and considerable ice. Many of the tents are still laying flat and everything around shows that the storm was very severe. A number of the band have no meat and some no flour, nor in fact scarcly any provisions and several have had little only what I have given them out of the stock I laid in for my family. I have this morning given the guard the bag of flour [George] Miller left and a piece of Pork and also a piece to [Jackson] Redding. The day continued fine but roads almost impassable. Evening the band played some.
[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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