[Hosea Stout Diary] Saturday October 3 1846. To day I went up the river to the place where the Big-hurd was kept for some cattle about 6 miles up & it was over a ruff & a rugged road & through matted bottom land. The cattle were scattered over a number of miles and it took a large number of hands to drive them out.So it was a custom for all who wanted any of their cattle to go on Saturdays and drive all out which could be found and every man look out his own cattle more easily this way.Individually a man might not find his cattle in a weekwe got what we wanted and came home about dark.
The low-lands where the cottonwood tree grows was full of men & teams cutting & drawing logs to the river for houses
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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