[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 28th A Cold rainy morning. The Camp Concluded not to start untill it stop raining. So we started at 10 colok & travled 11 1/2 miles & camped for the night on the bank of the river. It was A damp Cold day.
We passed along side of A clear strem of water with some beaver dams & houses upon it. At one place it raised the water about two feet which was lined with fish A good share of which was speckled trout so the brethren informed me. This is the first stream I have met with containing trout since I left the New England States. Therefore I name it trout creek. It was not more than 3 miles long. It arose from a large pure spring. It was but a little above Scotts Bluffs. + Distance of the day 11 1/2.
During the evening President Young called at my fire & seeing several of trhe brethering playing dominoes in A waggon nearby began to teach by saying that the devil was getting power over the camp. That for several days past nearly the whole camp had drank into A spirit of card, Checker, & domino playing & dancing & the spirit of folley & if they did not spedily repent their works, labours, & Journey would be in vain. That we should not accomplish the object for which we had come but should be thwarted in it. He said the Camp did not quarel any to be shure for the devel would not set them to quarreling as long as he could draw them away gradually from duty & fill them with nonsens & folley, for the devil was vary Cuning in drawing away the people of God.
I felt the force of his remarks & thought them necessary. During the evening I went in to the doctors waggon, read a Chapter in the book of Mormon & prayed with them, After which B Young H. C. Kimball W Richards E. T. Benson & W. Woodruff met in council in Br Youngs wnggon & Br Young wrote some of the word of the Lord Concerning the Camp & expressed his views & feelings concerning the camp that they must spedily repent or they would be cursed, that they were forgetting their mission & he had rather travel with 10 righteous men who would keep the Commandments of God than the whole Camp while in a Carless manner & forgetting God. We stayed untill 10 oclok & retired to rest.
[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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