“This valley of the Grande Ronde is the most beautiful sight I’ve seen in months. Water and graze in abundance! And if this valley is so fine, the Willamette must be twice as fine! We’ll be sittin’ pretty in our new homestead!”
2
“We followed the edge of the desert from Fort Boise to the forbidding wall of the Blue Mountains. The hills were dreadful steep! Locking both wheels and coming down slow, we got down safe. Poor animals! No grass or water for days.”
4
“Since crossing the Snake at Fort Boise, it’s been just mountains and desert. Dust deeper each day -- six inches at times. No tracks, just clouds of dust. Many cattle choked on the dust after swimming the river, then bled and died.”
