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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 did the last. Some days in the early part of this month have been very cold. the mercury going down to 28º and 30º below zero. Whenever the weather will permit the men are busy getting my house ready for occupancy. Our mails are received quite 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 instructions, did so, surely killing one of the public horses they were