Show 112 nia he did not choose to return with Walker setting out into what was supposedly good trapping and hunting territory lay in a year’s supply of food and provisions? Yet that is exactly what was done Already excellently supplied vith trapping gear and equipment the party stopped on Bear river long enough to lay in a plentiful supply of venison and buffalo meat Says Percy H Booth of this last insurance of a Furthermore why should a party q successful trip: Great quantities of meat were brought into camp sliced thin hung in the sun and converted into ''jerky" When the company started westward again along the northern shores of Great Salt Lake each man had sixty pounds of this dried provision in his pack Following instructions Walker led his brigade along the north shores of the lake headed for California As they approached the northwest and west shores it became more and that to follow down the west side would be to invite disaster because the party found no water at all Hence it was decided to strike to the west in search of water more apparent Says Zenas Leonard of the course followed: the 4th of September we killed our last buffalo e sic on the west side of the Salt Lake We still continued along the margin of the lake with the intention of leaving it when we got to the extreme west side of we found the country very poor and almost withit out game except goats and some few rabbits On the 13th On 9 Booth West Wind 10 Leonard 49 Leonard s Narrative 148 |