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The diary records the journey from a camp near Independence by way of the Santa Fe´ road, Kansas and Blue rivers, Fort Kearney, the Platte, South Fork, Ash Hollow, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette’s Cut-off, Fort Hall, the California Trail, the Humboldt and Truckee, and the mines on the north fork of Bear River. Soon after leaving Independence, Willis’s party joined an Indiana company camped near the Charlestown [Va.] Company.