[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 29th We parted this morning with Mr Bridger who remarked that it would not be prudent to bring A great population into the bason untill we ascertained whether grain would grow or not.
We travled on to big Sandy 8 miles & nooned. It was A vary Hot day. These streams are now up but during Summer they become entirely dry. We nooned two hours & then drove onto the bank of the big Sandy 15 3/4/ miles & camped for the night. This camp ground is the last time we meet with Big Sandy 8 miles east of the ferry on green River. The road to day, As has been the case through A great portion of this Country has been over A Hot Sandy desert with scearsly any green thing except the various species of the wild sage from 6 inches to 8 feet high with stocks from 1/4 of an inch to 4 inches in diameter. We have to use it for firewood & it makes quit a good Substitute.
O. P. Rockwell & myself went forward to pick out a camp ground. We was Ahead about 6 miles of the Camp when we found one which was the first place we Could get grass for 15 miles from whare we nooned. It made the longest days journey we had made on the whole route.
I returned to meet the camp about 4 miles & was informed that Br Fowler was vary sick & in my carriage I went back & met him & found him in great distress in his head, back, & bones through out. He Complained bitterly of the jar of the waggon, And finally was out of his head & became wild. I did not get into camp untill near 9 oclok. I then Commenced doctoring him with composition, tea, pills &c & He soon began to get better & had a comfortable nights rest. Distance of the day 23 3/4.
[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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