John Dowdle is purported to have led this small out-and-back wagon company that arrived in Salt Lake on October 20. This company has little documentation and is a bit mysterious because it appears that they traveled all the way to Omaha to pick up the emigrants. If this is accurate, this would mean that on the return trip, the emigrants in this wagon company traveled a major portion of the distance over which they could have more easily and quickly traveled by train! A possible explanation is that the company had two purposes, the first to pick up emigrants, and the other to pick up freight or cattle that could not be transported by train. The only account that names the captain indicates it was a "John Doddle." However it also indicates that "Doddle" later moved up to Cache Valley, so we believe it was actually, John Clark Dowdle, because he lived in Cache Valley later in his life.