NPE Journal Segment 2
Journal Segment 2
we are just passing a little
log cabin where seven men was killed
by the Indians O what a butiful grove
the tree stand in roes just as tho they
had been planted by the hand of man
we have seen a grate number of buffalo
our boys had quite jubilee
shooting at them did not kill any they
was to far off whair we have laid up for
the night is in a shute of ground just about
ten miles below the round (buke) all hands hard
at work wind blowing very heard
June Sunday the sixth
a very pleasant day about a 11 oclock still
in the shute part of our fraight on shore are
of and taking it in so I think we will soon be up
and going again the river is falling very fast they
do not expect to get up till we have a rain well
this is my first gloomey day sins I left my dear
native land I feel badley to see them all in so
much trouble and not knowing weather we can
get up at tall if not we will be in a pirty bad fix
the ondely coumfort thare is more in the same
fix so we will have company in this wild
countery whare thare is no inhabince but the
wild men of the wood and wild animals
About four oclock the boat got over and
the men has commenced to ferry the fraight
they are coming with the first load half to bring
it about a mild Ebert has laid down to take a nap
knoh he was up all night we will not get away
from hear today four boats past up today Silver Lake
Calossal Peater Balon Utica our pilot took the
Rong chute that is what got us in this trouble
June the Seventh
Seventh a very cloudey day wind high
Have not been running very much had to
Stop and cut wood the miner past up awhile
we was lying at shore they landed just above
us thare crew shot five bufaloo gave us one
I seen them shoot one in the river it was
Quite a curossety to me it looked like a grate
stack of hay floating along we had the
first bufaloo for supper I did not relish it
very much I think that is the first and last
for me un less I get hungery then ever I have
been we are going along pirty well this evening
it is sprinkling rain O but I do want to see
it rain for about a week we are very much
afraid we canot get up the water is so low
they are crying the water all most
all the time we are just this moment coming
to a very bad place they are crying
four feet
Laid in for the night all well maid a
Pirty good run considiern the low water and the high
winds all well but very much discuriged
I feel sorry for them Ebert is almost give up
Thinks if the river does not rais soon we will
Never get to Benton my heart akes for him he
Has a heard time wind still blowing ten oclock
June the
Eight this is a very pirty day except high wind
the wind has been blowing a perfick herican
all day our pilot is out sounding the
water as (yousal) we are laying out in the river
waiting his return I have often spoak of the
butiful seanery but today (enull)
all we past what they call the round buke to
day can see it for tow or three days we are just
passing mountains that look just like churches
with grate steaples O how butiful but the trouble
we have getting along killes it all I am afraid
this boat will never get to Benton we are going
aloung onse more Ebert has not had his supper
yet I must go and keep him company he feels so
badlely one of our passengers cough a very nice
mess of fish we had it for supper the bufalose
has souried on them all M Peppard
though it very fine at first he was so hungery
for fresh meet our chambermaid was a
shore today for the first sins we left St Louis
Laid in for the night
Whare they was sounding it got dark on them
Before the found the channel wind fell
After dark all well
June the Ninth
This is a plesent
day we have had for several days very calm and
warm have maid a very good run now about
seven oclock in the evining have just left
a wood yard whare we took twelve cord of wood
thoes men tell us they had a fight with the
Indians this spring killed thirteen of them and
the Indians killed two of the wood men and shot a
woman they had living with them they calped
her she is living and getting well they cut off
Indians heads and boyled them to get thair calp
to send to washington citey
Well I was surprised
with a very large wooden canon laying
at my door this evining I supose they
though they was going to have a good joak
on me as I am so fraid of the Indians well
I enjoyed the fun still I think thare is sum
on board is all most as courdely as
I am we got very bad news this evining
these wood men tell us thair is no snow on the
mountains so if we do not have a rain we
will never get to benton
we have now landed at
fourt halley laid in for the night got bad news they
say thair is no snow on the mountains if that is so
we will never get up to Benton Indians very
troublsom hear some our crew seen the woman
that they shot and calped she is almost well
all feel very much discuriged thare is some very
loung faces on board to night I hope we will
have a change soon for the better all well I am
going to bed
June the tenth
A very butiful
day sun shining very bright no sine of
rain O I canot describe my feelings this morning
I see Ebert is almost give up I feel so sorry
for him he is now laying on the bed reeding the
bible while our pilot is out sounding the water
we have been runing pirty well this morning
till now we have come to a very shole barr
I will lay down my pen till evining
Five oclock the clouds
is beging to geather it has a aperance of rain on a very
heavy wind we are now laying at a wood yard
taking wood a grate many Indians hear some on board
baging all they can get the (funist) sight I have
seen on my trip was while we was laying hear
fifteen or sixteen Indian squaws swimming the river with
thair clothes teyd up in a bufaloo roab they all come
to the boat after they got thair clothes on
Ten oclock wind has commensed
blowing I think we will not have any rain the wind
is as warm as if it was blowing of fire I was in the bed
when when thair came such a blast I thought
the (tenar) was going so I jumped up and
commensed puting on my clothes by the time I
got half dressed it was all over then we had a fue
sprinkles of rain so I went back and slept sound
June the eleventh
Very warm and
plesent su shiniing we are now passing threw
what they call 2 calf island are having a littel
trouble we are in a littel better sprites this morning
hurd whare we took wood the river was raising
a littel the Andey Ackley past down this morning
reported 3 feet at benton and raising so that
is a littel encurigment I do think yesterday
was one of the darkest days of my life to see
all the crew so much discuiriged also to think
we was so fare from home and friend cast in
a land of saviges not knowing how or weather
we was going to get back with the boat or
with our lives and that we do not know yet
we must leave that with a higher power my prayer
is that god will turn us to trust him in all things
We have just got threw and
going very nicely Bertha just behind
they had as much trouble as we had gitting threw
one thing I forgot to mention we past a Indian
camp whare there was hundreds of men wimon
and children I tryd to count the dogs but they
was to numurous for the poneys they
looked as if the would number thousands
half after one
laying at what they called grand island whare
four or five boats has left part of thare fraight and
left for benton this morning the men that is left
with the fraight tell us the river is raising our fellows
does not know yet what they will do
six oclock
they have commensed
taking out part of our fraight are going
to try and get to cow island whare thare will
be a hope if they canot get up any further they
can get wagons to take it this is
a nother gloomy day all apears darkness
the river is raising a littel looks a littel like
rain this evining Ebert has almost give up
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June the 12
they have
got of and going a very cloudey
morning looks very much like rain not
quite as warm as it was yesterday I think it has
been raining in the mountins last evining
we have left part of the fraight expect to go
back for it to day if no bad luck
we all think the Bertha has got in
trouble as she was just behind us
the coming threw the shute so we have not
seen her yet that was yesterday
The Indians was coming in droves
whare the fraight is when we left
we left 2 men to protect ours I will
now lay down my pen till I see how we
get a loung we are all well but do not
feel comfortable
half after 2
we are now
laying opeset cow island arrived hear
about 12 oclock our pilot has just com
in he has been sounding the w(torn page)
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will no what is to do the wind is blowing
very hard all feel very much discuriged
well I ges the Indians
is going to follow us up as far as we go I was laying
on the bed reeding the bible I hurd som one
say thare they come so I looked out of the window
hear comes a ould fellow riding his poney
with a big dog runing a loung side this
is the way the do send one to see how things
is going on then they all come
about tomorrow morning thare will be
about fifty I expect this tribe is crowes they
have got the right name I do not feel afraid
as I did so you see a prison can get yuost to most
any thing espacely if they canot help them selves
I should not like to go very far from the boat
this ould fellow is beggging shouger he has not
been on the boat yet there is a nother boat has part
of her fraight hear she has gon on to benton 3 men
left to take care of it they have a cannon I do not
think the Indians is very much afraid of that they
could take us all if they had a mind to do so
we are not going to leave
hear till morning the wind is still blowing very
heard it is nine oclock hear before dark I supose you
are all in bed when we are eating our supper
and that is three four hours before dark
June the 13 Sunday
this is a very plesent day sun shining very
bright wind blowing a littel
we left cow island this morning are now
back to grand island taking in our fraight
the Indians came hear while we were gon
by hundreds and piched thare tents they are
strung a loung the bank thare is men
wimon children and dogs to numers to
mention a person can barely hear
for the noys the barking of the dogs is
awful some singing som talking som
swimming poneys a cross the slue
I tryd to count the paposes but thare
was to many some of tem looked as if
they was not more than 2 or threer days ould
without a stich on they did look tow
cuit I seen them tak one littel fellow
and flung him in the river he looked
as if he was not more than 3 mounthes
ould while I am writing thare is ould
squaw looking in at my door
bagging for somthing to eat I feel sorry
for them we will not let them come on
the boat thare has just one got on a moment
ago well salley is hear she has
been to benton with part of her fraight
the captin is on he has been very poorly
on this trip is walking on crutches
John Parr is at benton attending to thare
fraight it is now about half after ten
we have got all most all our fraight
on again but very poor hope of gitting
it up to benton are going to try and get
it as far as they can we all expect by
the time we get back to our fraight
thare will be a large party of indians
geathered thair
One oclock well we are of and going
up the river again the Indians left when
we did we can see them strung all a
loung the river following the boat littel
boys and girls not moret than 6 or seven
riding a loung on thare littel poneys such
a sight I never seen some of thare poneys
draing thare teapees I canot discribe the sight
I gess they are detirmened to follow us up as far as
they can we have just got out of thair sight
the wind is very high this
evining also very cauld my feet is all most
frose we all have our winter clothing on yet
when we have a warm day it is so very
warm we can hardely stand it with our flannels
but prehapes the next day will be very could
so we canot change with saftey
I got a littel frightened
a few moments ago was laing on the bed a bout
going to sleep hurd a gun fired so I jumped
up and looked out the window hurd them
say thare he is so I run and hid behind a
coffey sack thought that would not do
runout in (teses) the pilot was just coming
out of his room with his gun I says what
is rong he tould me they was shooting at 2
antelope so I looked out and seen them
bounding over the mountin for life
I thought it was Indians
we just got back to our fraight
about five oclock found the Arcancer hear
putng off some of her fraight she has 2 or
three ladies so I must come up my head and
go down and see them the sight of a
sivilised lady does a pirson good in
this countery well it is not ten oclock
and its nearly dark I am not feeling very
well this evining neather in body nor
mind will go to bed and try to sleep it
off
June the fourteenth
this is a very butiful day sun shining
very bright still it is very dark with us
I believe it is one of the darkest days of our lives
we are laying at cow island all most all
the fraight on shore do not expect to get up
any further without a rain the river still
falling Pa is laying on the bead with more
trouble than he is abel to bare in his declyning
years I think the Indians is coming I hear
thair poneys well I laid down my pen and
looked out so hear they come by the hundreds and in
a fue moments had thare tents piched they put me
in mind of what we reed in the bible of the
Philistines I feel sorry for them this tribe is not hostile
but they are very filthey and as I have all ready
mention are grate beggars they soon surounded
the boats for somthing to eat I am writing this
for the benefit of our dear gran children
we do not knew what will hapen to us and we are
a grate many miles from our homes so if I do not live
to get home they can reed this if it falles in thare hands
I often think of them and how happey I would
be to be thair with them and have them all geathered
around me telling them what I seen I have seen
more then I am abel to write
June the fifteenth
this morning lookes very much like rain
we all feel ancious I for my part I never had
the (horows) evirs in my life this is such a
dolefull place our passengers has all left also
M Peppard and one of the pilots for fourt benton
we must stay hear till they can do somthing
with our fraight well it has just commensed to
rain I do hope it will rain for three days then
we would have some hope of gitting a way
from this lonely place we have had a grate
meny squaws to see us this morning and one
of the smartest littel papuses can be she is a
grate pet amung the tribe they call her thare bufaloo
hunter she is not more than 3 years ould
she has taking a grate notion to me Pa and I took
a walk up to thair camp yesterday evining o you
never seen the like of dogs well they was very
frendely the children all geathered around us
by the dosons all pulling at my dress also at the buttons
five or six squaws got around me and
felt me all over I tell you I felt a littel
quir they wanted to give us some of this
dryde bufaloo meet but we would not except
littel girls and boys not biger then eber and
Jimey Cora and birty can ride just like
circus riders it is a sight to see them flighing
over the prerari on thair littel poneys all have
clothing on but the babeys they have nothing
but beeds around thare neck and rists we
dressed 2 of them in flower sacks
well I am very much afraid the
rain is over it ondely sprinkled a littel and is gitting
very could Pa is laying on the bed a sleep he still
has feels in dispair all we can do is put our trust
in god and comit our selves in his hands we
have no power within our selves supper is
ready so I must stop writing
well supper is over Pa
and I is going to take a littel walk
we walked out
a round a mountin I tough I hurd a war
partey so I says Pa let us go back to the boat I
hear a war partey coming he laugh at me
we went back as fast as we could and what do
you think while we was gon this tribe that
is hear maid a raid on the boat for somthing
to eat men wimon and children all
all around the fraight looking very savige
Pa gave them a sack of flower also a hundred
pounds of shugar they gave him som ould robes
and I went off we do not knew how soon they will
make a nother atact on us they thretned to
throw the fraight in the river
if they did not give them somthing to eat
June the sixteenth
I feel to thank god this morning
it is raining and did rain some in the night
weather it will amount to very much that
is with a higher power thare is a nother partey
of Indians crossing the river I supose they will
make a raid on us O if my dear children
knew my feeling this morning somtimes
I all most give us in dispair then I will try and
put my trust in god I pray god will spair us
to get home to our dear children I will stop writing
till I see what they are going to do this is a very dark
morning with me when I think of our dear
home and loved ones thair my heart sinks
within me thare has 2 boats come from
benton and has just landed hear they want our
fraight and wants all most as much for taking
it from hear as pa gets from St Louis I do not
knew what Pa will do as it is raining he prehaps
will wait a few days and see if the river does
rais
it is some time in the afternoon
Pa is shipping his fraight on 2 boats by the
time he gats it to benton he will not have
much on his trip but let it all go just so
we get away from thoes awful Indians
he and I are going up to benton with the
fraight it has just quit raining
June the Seventeenth
this is still very cloudey weather
has been sprinkelin all most all day
yesterday and to day is now about
half after one oclock we gave up the
notion of going to benton the boats
that took our fraight left hear this morning
we think of leaving here tomorow
are waiting to hear from Mr Peppard
the Indians left hear this four noon
I am so glad 2 of our men left on
foot for benton this morning some
of our crew think the Indians
captured them soon after they left
the boat Mr Reed Hecrim and the
second engineer has started out on
a littel boat to see if they can find
them Ebert is not well to day he lookes
very bad for my part I have no reason
to complain of my helth still I must
say this is the darkest days I ever seen
I wood give o I do not know what to
say be just one hour at my dear
home O it is so lonely hear and pa is
feeling so badely I am trying to keep up
all I can on his acount some times when
I think of home my heart sinks within
me then I go of to my self and take a good
cry I would have enjoyd my self
very well if they had got a loung all right
with the boat and them awful Indians
had kept away
well our supper is over
we had venison for supper it was
very nice pa and I took a ramble a
round the mountins this after noon
I enjoyd it as I have been on the boat
so loung and we could not go a shore
very much while the Indians stayd still
I was afraid some of them might be hid in
the mountin and fire at us our men that
went out hunting this morning shot
a antelope as we was going cross the
preire we met them with it
hung across a pole toting it to the boat
I tell you we all felt proud to think we
was going to have fresh meet
June the Eighteenth friday
this has been a very cloudy day
raind all most all day we are still
in the same ould place waiting
to hear from Mr Peppard we have
just got thrue eating supper thare
was a grate excitement as we was
going to set down some of the crew
seen a bufaloo cow and 2 calfs on
other side of the river so part of
our crew went after them we seen
them runing over the moutin the after
them they have not got back yet
it is very could hear so much so we
are ablige to keep up fire all most could
a nuff for snow
the boys has got back
did not capture the bufaloo they was
two swift for them it has commensed
raining very hard O I am so glad I am
in hope of gitting away from this
lonely place
Saturday June the nineteenth
This is a very plesant morning the rain is
over sun shining with a cloud
hear and thare all of the boys going on
the mountin to cut pine wood Pa
thinks he will leave hear tomorrow
I will feel a gra diel better when we get
turned teward homestill we will
be in grate danger as the Indians is
on the war path this summer and we
half to pass a grate menny
I just got waid a fue
moments ago have falling off five pounds
sins we left St Louis I think Pa
lost a gradiel more then most from his loks
he has had so much trouble it is a nuff
to kill him
well the most butifull sight I
have seen on my trip was this after noon
Pa and I and five or six of the boys
went a cross the river to see the beare
paw mountins we went up a mountin
about four miles high and w could
see them very plain O but they did
look butifull they tell me they are
about a hundred miles distant we
could see the peaks and points very
plain also we could see it raining
very heard thare and very clear where
we was and sun shining it has
clouded up sins we came back and
is rainig just now a very hard shower
it thundred this evinig for the first
sins brother Jacob left us that was on
the lower part of this river a fue days
after we left St Louis I am very tired
this eveining so I will lay down my pen
till tommorrow I forgot to say we are
looking for the Indians all the time they have
maid threts to make a raid on a pile of
fraight that belongs to the Arcances I
supose they will when we leave
June Sunday the 20
this is a
delitefull Sabeth morning we ar now
got our faces turned homeward weather
we will be promited to reach thare is un
knowing to us we must leave that with
god I feeel very glad for this is a afful
country some of the crew call it god
for saken I canot say that for god is every
whare he is just as willen and abel to
hear and awncer our prayers hear as in our
own countery if we call upon him in
faith beliving he will hear and awncer our
prayers I expect we will be a good while going
down the river is so very low and more
we expect to have trouble with the Indians
I will lay down my pen and reed the bible
till evining and by that time can tell
how we get aloung
they maid a very good
run as far as they came this four noon laid
in to cut wood about 12 oclock laid thare
all night
June the 21 sun shining and wind
very high left whare we laid last night
run till about ten oclock laid in to
cut wood all hands has been cutting and
halling all day it is now about 5 oclock
in the evining I do not think we will leave
hear till morning we are laying whare the
Indians burnt the wood men out last summer
I geathered some of the Indian squaws beeds
out of the ashes to show the children if I live
to get home I feel very sad to day I try all
I can to keep from thinking of home when I
think how far we are from our dear ones
my heart sinks with in me and I get all
most sick
O the Sallie has just past I seen John
Parr but did not speak to him I would
liked very much to have had a littel talk
with him I think I would felt better it does
me gradiel of good to see any one from home
if they have not been thair sins we left
our supper is just over we was just
at supper when Sallie past
well we cough up
to the Salley whare she was wooding we seen
all of our friends it was just about dark
so we laid thare all night she went down
a littel further to take more wood
June the 22
this is a very plesant day
but a littel cloudey our dinner is
just over our boys had quite a exciting
time this four noon shooting at a flock of
bufalow but did not kill any of them
our crew is all well except one deck
hand he fell in the hole of the boat and got
badly hurt
6 oclock going aloung
very nicely just now have been a ground
three times this after noon we are
homeward bound I am so glad but
they all think we will have trouble yet
as the river is so very low
June the 23
a very plesant morning
going aloung very well this morning
passed milk river before I was up will
Seven oclock had
a draing time all afternoon maid
a very poor run all very much out
of heart are now looking for wood
laid up for the night at head of
Spread Eagle bend
June the twenty fourth
cloud very heavy
looks very much like rain are laying
at shore cutting wood all hands hard
at wirk breakfast is just over have
maid a pirty good run this morning
past threw a very bad place whare we
was a ground going up it is cauld
Spread Eagle the river is very wide and
shore with sand barrs all over
Ebert is not
well today ten oclock we are
a bout going to bed have been
laid in all after noon and part of the
four noon for high wind the men
cut wood all day while we was laid
up have got a very nice lott of wood
on board I am very much interested
about wood for it is very heard to get
also very carce and this boat youses it
pirty fast they canot get her aloung with out
lotts of good wood I want to get home
June the twenty fifth friday
this is a very plesant morning we
going aloung very nicely but canot
say how loung the wind is just commensed
to rais so I expect we will have high wind
to day somtimes I feel very much discuriged
for fear we will never get down the river
is so very low
nine oclock in the evining
this has been the
wawrmest day we have had on our trip the
wind blowed a littel in the morning whin
at least it turnd very warm they had a
gradiel of trouble to day was a ground
twise the pilot run the boat out of the
channel we are a bout twenty miles
from yellow stone river they expect to
have more water after we pass thare
June the twenty sixth saturday
well we got of same time
in the night are going a loung very
well this morning just past yellow
stone while we was eating breckfast
next buford a short time after
I am so glad they think the river is a littel
higherI hope it is for that is ondley hope of
gitting back
this is a very plesant morning
it is now about
eleven oclock they have laid up to clean
out the boylers and cut wood
for my
part I am out of wirk and that makes it very
lonely as thare is no lady company on board
we had one passenger he got off this morning at
fourt buford
Pa is not very well has gon to
bed he was up all most all night whare they was aground
this has been a nother very
warm day I have taken of my woolen stockins
to day for the first the wind is very high
this evining imposible to run still we are
going a head dark laid in for the night
June the twenty seventh sunday
a very plesant morning
we are going aloung very well this morning
we laid in for the night loung
(sicle) of a island men all out cuting wood
I gess we are very short distance above littel
missouri river all well I am going to bed
June the twenty eighth
we are now laying
opeset fourt stevenson cuting wood this is a
very butiful day about ten oclock
laid up for the night maid a pirty good run to
day bough first wood this afternoon sins we left
cow island
June the twenty ninth
this is a verybutiful
morning I think it will be a very warm day we
met the nick wall very early this morning
we have laid in to cut
wood all hands heard at wirk I think it is
about nine oclock whare they are cuting
wood the roses so thick they can hardely get
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June the 30 this is a nother very
butiful day sun shining very bright
wind just commencing to blow have been
runing a loung very nicely this morning
you will see by this this this the last day of june
and we are meny miles from our home canot
spend our fourth with the children this year
eight oclock laid in for the night at what
they call Swan Lake wood yard they had a good
diel of trouble this after noon on account of
high winds still maid a very good run
July the first
this is the windest day we
have had on our downward trip they left
whare we was laid in for the night run down
about four miles got a ground once spaird
of and laid up for high wind the men is all
out cuting wood what pine wood they can get
the wind fell a bout four oclock
we left run down thirty five miles got a ground
on a sand barr whare we laid all night
one of our cabin boys went out a (torn page)
lost he was all most frightned (torn page)
gave up ever finding the br((torn page)
a rock gave him self up to the(torn page)
(ford) they mist him when they (torn page)
to leave so they blowd the whistle(torn page)
and came in a hurry he is a b(torn page)
he was very sick after he got to the(torn page)
I gess he will never try going so far from the boat
again
July the second friday
a very plesant day
but I am very much afraid it is going to be
windey the wind is just commed blowing
we got of whare we was a ground quite
early this morning have been runing aloung
very well this morning past fourt sulley
a bout seven oclock got one passenger thair
seen the first house this morning that we
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