Day-by-day journal of Captain Medorem Crawford, who was "charged with protecting emigrant trains crossing the plains in 1861, '62, and '63. The above is the only printed report by the military escort that we have been able to locate. The party of 1862 left Fort Stanton, four miles from Omaha, on June 16, traveling by way of Fort Kearny, Fort Laramie, the Lander Cutoff, to Grand Ronde and finally arriving at Walla Walla on October 14. Most of the emigrants, however, were heading for he Salmon River mines and dropped off the march before its completion" - Wagner-Camp. Graff 913; HOwes C874; Wagner-Camp 386.