Show 98 in the country for 4 years I cannot ascertain if this stream discharges in Salt Lake or in Bear river"1® This last sentence is significant for it clearly shows that Ogden had not previously (in 1825) explored very extensively in the Bear river vicinity else he would have known that the Malad empties into the Bear some twenty miles above the mouth have been of the latter Trapping up the Malad for a week Ogden guided his party over the divide into the Snake drainage region on Crossed over the January 12 Said he: "A stormy night height of land and camped on the forks of the Portneuf river Ve river if there must cross to the waters of Bear’s Americans made I expect to find Buffalo”11 So be no preparations were for a crossing to the Bear Here again we are faced with a lack of information cause of incomplete journal be- Ogden’s journal contains entries entry from January 17 to March 29 1829 At the time of his last entry preparations were still being made for a cross- ing of the divide to Bear river on the 29th of March Ogden What he did was heading his party back toward the Humboldt during that period is of course vague Xt is the writer’s no “V opinion that at this time Ogden again entered Ogden’s Hole 10 Oregon 11 Loc Historical Quarterly oit XI 1910 391 |