Tuesday, September 28

We waited till after nine o'clock for the second division to come up

but not being yet in sight we moved onward, traveled seventeen and a

half miles, then camped on Sand Hill Creek about a mile from the river.

We have seen more buffalo today than I ever saw in one day, supposed to

be not less than 200,000. We had some trouble to make a road through

them safely. We also saw two horses with the herd. Jackson Redding went

to try and catch them but found them perfectly wild.

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