[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 21st Before we left the encampment Br Clayton put up A guide board with the following inscription for the benefit of the next camp from winter Quarters: 409 miles from the Junktion: 93 1/4 ceder Bluff 36 1/2. Ash Hollow 8 miles, & 133 from Fort Laramee.
We travled to day 7 1/2 miles & nooned. In the Afternoon 8 m. & Camped for the night. We saw 8 or 10 Buffalo to day but have not seen but few for several days. We saw some deer & Antilope to day. I killed A Bagger with the jaw bone of a Buffalo.
Just as we got to A Camping place two Indians came from the Bluffs riding towards us & made signs for us to come to them. Several of the brethren went. It was A sioux Indian & his wife. They talked by signs awhile & went away. Distance of the day 15 1/2 miles.
[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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