[William Clayton Journal] Today J[ackson] Redding and [Henry] Sanderson went back to see if they could see the other wagons. They returned at night and said the company were within a few miles having been detained at Laramie to recover their horses most of which they got. They state that news has come to the Fort by a Sioux Indian that the Twelve and their company had all their horses stole at the Pacific springs during a snow storm. The Sioux stole them supposing them to belong to the Shoshones. The man that brought the news stole 17 but lost 8 in the mountains the remainder he brought to Laramie and the brethren there knew some of them and demanded them. He gave them up, at least all they could prove and 4 of the brethren started with them to meet the Twelve. The Indian says there were nine of them who stole the horses.
[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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