Camp On Timpanogos River
[Utah Territory]

May 21st 1860 [Monday]

We are now but ten miles up the Timpanogos thirty nine (39) from Camp Floyd. and this is our sixth day. The river is too high to ford, too swift to be bridged unless with great labor and many inconveniences, and the road way has been so much washed, it would be nearly an impossibility to return. So here we are, doing nothing but grumble. that is the grumblers grumble. I do nothing but laugh at them and have my own amusement. The ladies are of course very much annoyed at the delay especially in this Cañon, as the mountains all around us are covered with snow, and the sun is visible from about 9 oclock A M until four P M. So narrow is the way through which this river passes to the lake, and so high and close upon us are the mountains. Consequently the temperature is not agreeable. being uncomfortably cold during the night and in the early morning and late in the evening. I pity them, and so does every one, but here we are. The evil must be endured for it cannot be remedied. ⁽¹⁾

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(1) The Timpanogos River is located near the Great Salt Lake. Camp Floyd was on the western side of the Great Salt Lake in the Utah Territory. Cañon means canyon in Spanish.