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Journal of Western Travel
by John McTurk Gibson
edited by Weldon Hoppe
May 2nd, 1859 -- We inadvertently left camp this morning and got caught out in a most pitiless rainstorm, ten miles at least from timber. We had nothing left for it but push ahead in the midst of the storm, and are now engaged in cutting about an acre of scrub oak for our camp fires. Today we were passed by a company from Indiana, en route for California with 22 fine looking horses. We have been paying from 75c to $1.00 per hundred for hay and the same per bushel for corn. We have got tired however of the hay business, and have turned our cattle out on the sloughs; but we intend to feed corn for a couple of weeks longer. Our camp commends a full view of the road for two miles, and the word with all is "still they come."Powell
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