Camp 23.m.W. of Milk R. 610 m. pt. 9 A.M.
B. 25.87
T. 73" SW clouded
Noon B. 25.72
T. 88" SW partly clear
9 P.M. B. 25.84 calm. partly cloudy
T. 63"
Hazy all day. but clearing up in PM.

Sept. 7. Ashe, Crompton, & a number of Scouts off early to renew the search. Rode N. with Boswell & Fish to see a dead horse which had been found about 5 miles from camp, but which proved not to have anything to do with the missing men but to have belonged to Featherstone. Rode back by another route making a detour & killing a buffalo bull by the way. Boswell hit him at about 300 yds so badly with a single shot that he did not run more than 100 yds. He then stood & worried the dogs which soon caught up with him. Rode found him on horseback & gave him his coup deGrace.
Afternoon reading, finishing some sketches &c. Almost suffocated by dust in the tents. A strong S.W. wind blowing all day, having risen in the morning & fallen again at sundown. Searchers returned after dark having found nothing of the lost men. Tracks seen near Boundary mounds round which their work lay, but not distinct enough to follow. Can hardly suppose that massacred by indians as these so far apparently