Kate and Jennie Smith Diaries of 1879: Overland ... - Oregon Pioneers

August 1 [Jennie]FridayI am tired tonight we done a large washing and baking after we put our clothes away quite a good deal ofpacking Mr Lodon and Joe went to work this morning one of the soldiers spent the evening with meAugust 2 [Kate]Saturday:Was spent rather lonely in preparing for traveling next weekAugust 2 [Jennie]SaturdayThis has been a long lonesome day as there is no one in camp but our own family Papa sold our little wagonI am feeling rather uncomfortable just now we had onion pot pie for dinner which wasnt like .......August 3 [Kate]SundayToday I wrote a letter but was detained by a Miner who came to camp he is quite a talker in the eveningseveral old friends from other camps called and made it quite livelyAugust 3 [Jennie]SundayThis has been a long day although we have had a good deal of company where spent the day with us thelittle soldier boy spent a part of the day and the evening Frank Frost took us by surpriseAugust 4 [Kate]MondayWe left our camping ground and joined the remainder of the crowd after we crossed the North side of BoiseRiver. the ford was very good and had no trouble in crossing. We left the river about nine O’clock andtraveled eleven miles and stopped for dinner on Boise River had to buy hay there being no grass. Afterdinner we traveled three miles and camped the grass is very poor. We have passed through a very prettycountry being thickly settled and some very nice buildings.15 miles