Martin's Cove PDF      Email to a Friend

Author(s): Patience Loader, Elizabeth Sermon
Type: First-person accounts
Source(s): Stewart E. Glazer & Robert S. Clark, eds., Journal of the Trail (Salt Lake City, Utah: 1996), 97-101, 103-107.

"The passage of the Sweetwater at this point was a severe operation to many of the company. It was the worst river crossing of the expedition and the last.The water was not less than two feet deep, perhaps a little more in the deepest parts, but it was intensely cold. The ice was three or four inches..."

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