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Journal of Western Travel
by John McTurk Gibson
edited by Weldon Hoppe
June 7th, 1859 -- Travelling up the Platte, three droves of horses passed us bound for California. Alkali worse here than any place we have yet seen, roads awfully sandy and dusty, extremely hard on the cattle, owing to this we have camped early. The boys killed three jack-ass rabbits today.Powell
Travelled some fifteen miles. We have travelled through sand all day, the wagon runs hard. This part of the country is allmost formed of sand. Entirely along the bluffs is a layer of hard rock. The boys killed a young antelope and some hare.