[William Clayton Journal] The morning very fine and pleasant though tolerably cold. I put up a guide board at this place with the following inscriptions on it: From Winter Quarters 409 miles. From the junction of the North and South Forks 93 1/4 miles. From Cedar Bluffs south side the river 36 1/2 miles. Ash Hollow south side the river 8 miles. Camp of Pioneers May 21, 1847. According to Fremont this place is 132 miles from Laramie. The bluffs opposite are named Castle bluffs...Presidents Young and Kimball rode forward to pick the road and near this place they saw a nest of wolves, caught and killed two with sticks...Elder Kimball proposed tonight that I should leave a number of pages for so much of his journal as I am behind in copying and start from the present and keep it up daily. He furnished me a candle and I wrote the journal of this days travel by candle light in his journal leaving 56 pages blank . . .
[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]
[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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