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January 1868

Here I am making good resolves. Only, I am afraid, to break? them?, but hope I may be enabled to spend this year more profitably than I ddi the last. Some days in the early part of this month have been very cold. The mercury going down to 28 degrees and 30 degrees below zero. Whenever the weather will permit the men are busy getting my house ready for occupancy. Our mails are received quote regularly now by the aid of Crow Indian couriers, but some foolish, irresponsible party at Fort Phillip Kearny having told the boys to hurry through, they not knowing but those were the authorized unclear, did so, surely killing one of the public horses they were