* to a smaw creek called Plesent and camp for the nite and to stay over Sunday.  Hear is a store and a postoffice   Some timber along the stream.  We.get super and turn in for the night,. 14--This in Sunday morning   Very mudy fur we bad a hevy rain last night and thunder.  Mother is maken camp pies  The boys are herden their stock   We entend stayin hear over Sunday.  It look like clear up now.  We are in Riley county today.  This day cloudy till 3 oclock then clear up.  This is Camp Plesent creek Hear we got a sack of hops.  Quite a lot of peopel pass  hear today. Some goin to sunday school .  Plesent this even.  The boys are tion the cattel.  The man is pedlen apels.  There is a poor povrty striken looken man liven hear.  His place  is all over grow with weads .  I have been in camp all day.  I hope I shall be where I can go to meetin if I live to see another Sabeth.  We are all well for witch I am thankful to God fur so grate a blessen. 15-Monday.  last night fine cloudy this morning   We eat brakfast and start on our jerney .  We past thrue some ruff country .  Very stony.  Crose thrue streams with timber along there banks.  Some good land.   We now comes to a high bluff on witch stands a tower of stone to mark the way to Claycenter   We now ford a small creek and clime a high mounten.  It now comence to rain.  We halt for diner. rainen all the time we are eaten.  The boys hich up and start on again.  I stop and try to get a yard to put our cattel in but can not get any.  It slacks up and we go on.  The road is very stoney and sandey   Rainen again   It now pour down.  We now hear the distant roll of thunder and lighten . Rein poren down in torence .  We come to Claycenter about sundown wet as cats and cold.  Can not get any place to stay.  Noah and George sleep in a hayloft.  The rest stay in the wagon.   Put our horses in a old shanty.  The water half way up our boots.  This town lays on a piece of level sland on the bank or the Republican river.  Quite a busy place. 16--This morning we start about 10 oclock   Crose the Republican river on  a iron bridge of 3 long spans.  then go up the river 3 miles and camp and get diner.  Make a fire and drye our selfs out. We all feel better.  We then start on again   Go thrue a ruff cuntrey  High peaks rise up above the prairia the tops are covered with rocks  Looks like some of volcano.  Good farms along the streams.  We travel 14 miles and come to a place called Oakhill.  Hear is a store and post office.  A few rods west we come to camp for the night on a small creek called chapmans creek.  This is Camp Chapman   cloudy and cold. 17--This morning cloudy.  We had a visitor last night.  He wanted us to stop and take a homested.  He said that he could show us good land that we could homested and we had another man hear this morning wanted to sell us a claim of a hundred and sixty acres but I do not feel like byen eny yet   The boys are geten redy to start on again  We are now goen thrue some good land in this valey . Grain looks well.  We now cross a small creek  Hear we see 3 men and a team geten wood.  This creek has steep banks   We had the hardest pull here we had since we  left Iowa  We now go over some high hills some very high peaks with a high tower of stone on the top.  I suppose some of the old hunters  piled them up for landmark to know weare to crose the cuntry .  We are in a very thinly settled cuntry.  We now halt for diner. Teeny is milken the cows  The boys are feeden the horses.  Mother is getten diner.  We have eat diner and now start on again   We then come 12 mlles slopen down to the Solomon  We come within 2 miles and camp fur the night on the open prairia.  Rainen a little.  The roads are mudy and disagrible.  We get super and turn in fur the night 18-- This morning feed the horses and start without brakfast  Go on to Solomon city   Get bread drove out a mile and get brakfast.  Still cloudy and rain a littel   We start on up the Solomon valey.  It is very level.  Water and mud halfway up our boots. come to New Cambria about 1 oclock found S. P. Dunmire   he did not ask us to stop with him.  This I thot a littel strange as the wether is wet and cold and we have so many littel children.  But we are in the hands of our Blessed Lord and master and he have promised to take care of those that put their trust in him for he says he will never leave nor forsake them that put  there trust in me and I have a hope that our trust is in the Lord.  We come  to camp on the bank or the Saline river a half mile west of New Cambria   This is a small place of one store and a blacksmith shop   A elevator a corn crib and 2 houses and a shanty   Nice farm land aruound here.  There is quite a number of the Dunmires.  The wheat that is sone looks  green and nice.  We eat super in the wagon as it is rainen some out. Noah have got the blues and he wishes he never see Kansas.  I hope it will stop raInen soon and get drye weather  We now turn in for the night   We are all well for witch I am thinkful to God for this grate blessen.  Cloudy.  Got a letter from Jane and one from brother Will   This is camp Disnal. 19--This day raInen all day.  Noah and I walked up to Salina Bought some bread and meat.  Got very wet and cold.  We are in the wagon yet.  We got a shade to put our horses in.  Noah staid at Weavers all night 20--This morning cold and windy.  Misten today and cloudy.  Lay around the wagon all day.  Very mudy hear now.  We turn in for the night.  Is geten clear this even.  We are all well. 21--This morning clear.  The sun Is shinen.  We are still in Camp Dismal on the banks of the Saline river.  This mornin Lord we ask thy blessen on us this Sabith morning.  Rote a letter to Jane and one to brother Will.  clear all day and plesent   All well today. 22--This morning clear, I mailed my letters and Noah and I went up to Salina bought some meet and bread met brother Hartsock   Had a friendly chat with him   Come back into camp tired  The Lord is good to us in given us helth   Prais the Lord 0 my soul. 23--This day fine and plesent.  Noah and I am still looken for a house   We went over to the Solomon river to see a place and coude not get across the river   Come to camp   Went up to Salina with him after night   Came back tired and sleepy. 24--This day Noah and I went up to Salina to look at a farm made no bargain.  We can not find a house to live in . Fine and warm today. What it cost me to come to Kansas Groceries----1.40----2.50----.25----2.25 crossen the rivers---2.25---.50---.40---1.00---.25---.10---.25---4.25---.25 Total----15.65 RETURN TO INDEX