[William Clayton Journal] The morning fine but very windy. The brethren continued ferrying wagons over on the raft and also built 2 other rafts. The wind being so high they could not get along very fast . . . We have learned from a Missourian that there is a large company of emigrants coming up on the North side of the Platte above Grand Island. These arc doubtless some of our brethren, and if so they will probably reach up with us before we get through.
The day continued windy and some inclined to storm, but they succeeded in getting near 20 wagons over before night . . .
[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]
[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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