[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 17th It is much more warm & plesant to day than usual. Our road has been hard to day we came 2 1/2 miles through sandy bluffs. We again struck the bottom 4 1/2 miles from our camping place but the bottom was much softer than usual & many slues to cross. We crossed about one dozen streams to day of vary clear water that come from springs in the Bluff from 1 to 10 feet across them which run almost on the top of the ground without any bank at all with hard sand or gravel bottom. The water however was not as cold as spring water generally is.
The Hunters brought in 3 Buffalo & it detained the Camp some to get them in. President Young was not pleased with it as we had so much meet in camp already & they went out without Council.
We saw vary large droves of deer to day in the bottom the most we have ever seen any day on the road. A young Fawn was picked up & brought into camp & kept. We travled in all to day 12 3/4 miles.
I led the camp mostly through the Bluffs in the morning before Brothers Young & Kimball come up. We rode together all day picking our roads.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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