Show N A JOURNEY A we cannot conscientiously leave these detachments without going back and mentioning the daring and hazardous enterprise of john H tippets and thomas wolsey on the day december 1846 1816 these fearless soldiers left pueblo on the head waters of the arkansas river alone and without a ii guide to take money to their families and friends whom they had not heard beard from since john D lee and howard egan left them and overtook the battalion as previously noted the second day they passed pikes peak when they awoke the next morril morning ng they found ven vel ensconced under der about six inches of snow the fourth night they camped on ou cherty cherry creen creek near neat where denver city now stands arriving eat rat at the south bomb fork of the platte river they followed down it passing an old indian village A wind arose which h forced them them to lahe take shelter under the bank of the river during where they slept on the neo nto wood here mr kr tippets Ti PIRES avero that the tho weather was so cold that 04 iz inches of he tall tail of one of the mules was waa frozen another daya dayal travel took them hem to where they could get got wood for culinary purposes ses ees here they remained three days owing ta 9 tho the beverl beveri verity ee ty of the weather they killed hilled a which gave of meat Af terrone daya days travel from this point and bamping over night afie ond of tho the men went for water and was driven back baek by i a sentinel in the shape of an old buffalo bull ball they followed the river down to grand island hero here pawnee indiana t ook them prisoners and d detained etaine them I 1 one day and night they crossed theaven the liven liver below the isla island iid lid on the ice fee they then continued their journey eastward to the eik elk horn born river biver here they packed sand in their blanke tato keep their mules from slipping on the ice which was rather thin hud and weak but they succeeded in crossing in safety the same day taby tiby they were stopped by h a of omaha indians indiana among thera theia was a whlter whiter man brother tippets him it if ho he could speak english he answered d yos yes 11 then for gods bakel cake tell ua us where we are they found themselves within sixteen miles mim of they arrived duck alithe the loth pt of february IS 1817 84 84 7 a at t t the he house of president young Yo ting where a picnic party patty wa waa s gathered of which i i nic they freely pea pta partook took which was to them thein a great treat as t they hey had been three day days s without much t food oo 00 d brother tippets dreamed of partaking of just such a feast they werd word dut fifty two days traveling like abraham not tot knowing whither they went As aal I 1 am tim anxious to bring my narrative to a close cloae at an early eaily day dayi I 1 may not publish much more moio until it appears in book form respectfully dao DAJ dziel tyler |