CROSSING THE PLAINS IN 1865 FROM SARAH RAYMONDS DIARY AS FOUND IN THE 1880 "ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUSBANDMAN" NEWSPAPER.

12 June 1865 Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory:

 Here we stood at fort Kearney, a major way station on the trail west, looking at eleven graves of men killed by Indians last August as they were at breakfast in camp on Plum Creek. There were two women, wives of two of the party.  One man who had left camp to get water was the only survivor . The invaders killed and skalped all the men at camp, and took the two women and whatever of the provisions in the wagons, then set fire to them, and ran off with the teams and the women.  The one man who had been at the creek for water went with all haste to the way station for help. There the soldiers chased the Indians, fought them, rescued the women. These folks were from St. Joe, Missouri