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hunter, is one of his honored guests. The empty forage wagons return 

 to Fort Washakie to-morrow, as this point is the farthest on our jour- 

 ney which can be reached by wagons. During the day several ante- 

 lopes and one black- tail deer were killed, and a large number of trout 

 caught. Temperature at 4 p. in., 81°; altitude, 7,400 feet; distance 



marched, 15 miles. 



August 12, Saturday. — Broke camp at 6.15 a. m. Following the valley 

 of the West Fork of Wind River about 4J miles, we then crossed and 

 left it. Thence, ascending the Wind River Mountains, our trail lay 

 through parks, glades, and forests, and over bare mountain sides until 

 we reached a summit, beyond which the streams seemed to flow to the 

 westward. There we went into camp near a small rivulet, tributary, as 

 we afterwards discovered, to Warm Spring Creek — the latter a tribu- 

 tary to Wind River. During the afternoon General Strong amused the 

 members of the party by shooting with his rifle at a mark, with a cigar 

 box lid for a front sight. The day's march was an exceedingly pleasant 

 one, and the temperature, owing to the increased altitude, very comfort- 

 able. At 2 p. m. the thermometer marked 67°; altitude of camp, 9,200 

 feet. At 3 miles before arriving in camp we crossed a ridge of which 

 the altitude was 9,550 feet. Distance marched, 15 miles. 



August 13, Sunday. — General Sheridan has named this pass of the 

 mountains Lincoln Pass, in honor of the honorable the Secretary of 

 War, Mr. Robert T. Lincoln, for whose benefit and pleasure the journey 

 we are on was projected by the General. Mr. Lincoln had hoped and 

 expected to be with us, but at the last moment announced that unfore- 

 seen official duties would prevent his leaving Washington. To the north 

 of us is Togwotee Pass, and another unnamed pass, through which came 

 Colonel Kellogg to the eastward last year. To the south is Union Pass, 

 the pass of Captain Raynolds and his party coming eastward in 1860, 

 but, so far as is known, a few trappers arc the only persons of the white 

 race who have gone through the break in the mountains hereafter to be 

 known as Lincoln Pass. 



Breaking camp at the usual hour, G.15 a. m., we arrived at the sum- 

 mit in less than a half mile's distance. Its altitude, according to my 

 barometer, is 9,100 feet. From the pass our course was a little west of 

 south until we reached the valley of the Gros Ventre Eiver. The trail 

 was very steep and rough, winding at times around mountain sides 

 where the misstep of a horse was likely to plunge himself and his rider 

 to the bottom of a gorge hundreds of feet below. About 10 or 11 miles 

 from camp we were opposite the mouth of the little stream, along whose 

 deep canon lies the trail over Union Pass, and soon after crossed the 

 trail which leads from Green River to the recently discovered mines on 

 the Gros Ventre and Snake Rivers. Early in the morning General 

 Strong, Mr. McCullough, and Captain Clark, with Tosar, one of the 

 Shoshone scouts, went off hunting and returned at night with the sad- 

 dle of an enormous elk, which they had killed. Numerous large bands 



