Cross Wildcat Creek and other nullahs. Seven miles beyond Seneca lies Ashpoint, a few wooden huts, thence to “Uncle John's Grocery," where liquor and stores are procurable. Eleven miles from Big Nemehaw water, wood, and grass are found at certain seasons near the head of a ravine. Thence to Vermilion Creek, which heads to the N.E., and enters the Big Blue 20 miles above its mouth. The ford is miry after rain, and the banks are thickly wooded. Water is found in wells 40 -43 feet deep. Guittard's Station. 20 miles, 8 am - 12 noon, August 8, 1860

Seventeen miles beyond Walnut Creek, the Third Grasshopper, also falling into the Kansas River. Good camping-ground. Ten miles beyond lies Richland, deserted site. Thence to Seneca, capital of Nemehaw Co. A few shanties on the N. bank of Big Nemehaw Creek, a tributary of the Missouri River, which affords water, wood, and grass. 18 miles, 3 am - 6 am August 8, 1860

Two miles beyond Kennekuk is the first of the three Grasshopper Creeks, flowing after rain to the Kansas River. Road rough and stony, water, wood and grass. Four miles beyond the first Grasshopper is Whitehead, a young settlement on Big Grasshopper, water in pools, wood, and grass. Five and a half miles beyond is Walnut Creek, in Kickapoo Co. pass over corduroy bridge, roadside dotted with shanties. Thence to Locknan's, or Big Muddy Station.  25 miles, 9 pm - 1 am, August 7 - 8, 1860

After 10 miles, Valley Home, a whitewashed shanty. At Small Branch on Wolf River, 12 miles from Cold Spring, is a fiumara on the north of the road, with water, wood, and grass. Here the road from Fort Atchinson falls in. Kennekuk Station, 44 miles from St. Joseph. Sup and change mules.  22-23 miles, 4 pm - 8 pm,  August 7, 1860

Leave St. Joseph, Missouri, in N . lat. 39° 40', and W . long. 94°50'. Cross Missouri River by steam ferry. Five miles of bottom land, bend in river and settlements . Over rolling prairie 2000 feet above sea level. After 6 miles, Troy, capital of Doniphan Co., Kansas Territory, about a dozen shanties. Dine and change mules at Cold Spring 20 - A .M . P .M . -- good water and grass. Road from Fort Leavenworth (N . lat. 39° 21' 14 ", and W . long. 94° 44') falls in at Cold Spring, distant 15 miles. From St.

July 18, 1861 Thursday - Orion and Sam left St. Louis on the Sioux City for St. Joseph, Missouri: "We were six days going from St. Louis to “St. Jo.”—a trip that was so dull, and sleepy, and eventless that it has left no more impression on my memory than if its duration had been six minutes instead of that many days.