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Peale, Savage, Platt and Beveridge on horseback to examine the mountain lying to the north of camp beyond the Ogden River. Made sketches and returned to camp by 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon. At 6:00 Jackson took a photograph of the camp with most of the boys in the foreground and the mountains showing splendidly in the background.

[[underlined]] Stage Trip from Ogden, Utah to Fort Ellis, Montana [[/underlined]].

On June 22nd Dr. Hayden gave sudden order to nine of us to get ready for immediate departure from the Ogden camp for Fort Ellis, Montana - Peale, Burck, Logan, Platt, Savage, Hovey, Raymond, Greve and myself. Mr. Herring came with us to Fort Hall. We took passage by stage coach at 5 o'clock for Corinne, where we stopped until morning at the principal hotel of the place. The town is pleasantly situated and has some good stores and perhaps 500 to 800 inhabitants. At six in the morning we - ten of us - with our great bundle of baggage took stage for Bozeman, a distance of 480 miles. I took the outside and although the air was cool the time passed very pleasantly as the scenery was fine and the character of the country strange to me. We passed up the valley of the Malad, a small alkaline basin with a small river which runs west into Bear River. We were still in the region of Mormon settlements and the stage road was frequently cut up by irrigation ditches, many of which were difficult to cross and the Driver amused

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