[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 14th We travled 14 miles & camped on A small creek. While on the road Br Mathews Horse got away from him & went back 9 m. Br Young & Egan went back after him. We stoped at the Salaratus lake & filled our bags with salaratus. It was Cut out in cakes A foot thick. This lake is 3 miles east of Independance rock.
We had a hard storm of rain in the mountains & considerable rain fell in the valley whare we was the roads was vary sandy. 14 mil. We saw A number of herds of Buffalo to day.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[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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