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Eliza Roxcy Snow Journals

June 13, 1847

Location: Elkhorn River Crossing - 986 miles left, Nebraska - (nine rods wide, three feet deep) - 27 miles from Winter Quarters. Seven miles south and further west, over the Elkhorn River, members of the first company camped here April 11, 1847.

Summary: Saturday - Elkhorn

Journal entry: The day fine--we met Parly returning to town--arriv'd at the [Elk] Horn just before sunset--my feelings were very peculiar thro' the day--it verily seem'd that the glory of God rested down on the wagons (21 in No.) and overspread the prairie.

Source: Eliza Roxcy Snow: Personal Writings © edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher 1995. All rights reserved. Rights were granted by Ms. Beecher (editor), the University of Utah Press (publisher), and Huntington Library in Pasadena, California (owners of the original diary) to publish the transcribed contents of Eliza R. Snow's diaries for educational use.
ISBN 0-87480-477-9