Mormon History, May 10, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 10th A Cool morning. Before leaving the camp ground A letter was written to the next camp put into a small box nailed to A post 12 feet long one end put firm in the ground the other end erect in the air as A guide bord containing the following words: Open this Box and you will find a letter.
316 miles to winter Quarters. Pioneers. Lattitude 41°. (Our Friends no doubt will be glad to get the letter as it contains an account of our Journey.
We travled 6 miles & nooned then travled 4 & camped for the night. Our teams are some weak in consequences of not getting grass for several days as it was eat out by the Buffalo. There was one Buffalo, one deer & one Hare Brought into Camp by the Hunters to day, & distributed among the men in camp. We have what fresh meat we want daily. The grass is some better to day. Not but few Herds of Buffalo on our rout today we passed through some miles of dead grass which we set on fire to have new feed for the next company. It made a great fire indeed. We get our distance daily now of our travel from A mashine fixed to a waggon wheel which gives the true distance. We camped to night by an Island of cotton wood. 10 m.

[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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