About 200 individuals and about 50 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha)
Company Departed from Wyoming, Nebraska
1865 August 12
William Sidney Smith Willes Called as Captain
1865 August 12 – November 29 See Pioneers
Roles
Captain
Date Details
Started Between 1865 August 12 – 15
Joined Company
Ended Between 1865 November 11 – 29
Company Arrived
Company Arrived at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
1865 November 11
Sources
Pioneer
Pioneer
Deseret News
Heber Robert McBride autobiography
Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956
Sketch of the Life of Eva Schubel Gerber, circa 1930s, 1
The Semi-weekly telegraph
Thomas Taylor telegram to Brigham Young
Thompson, Annie Maria Kershaw, "History of Annie Maria Kershaw Thompson," in Danny Jessop and Marla W. Jessop, comps., Joseph Frederick Thompson Ancestry [1996], 38
- Thompson, Annie Maria Kershaw, "History of Annie Maria Kershaw Thompson," in Danny Jessop and Marla W. Jessop, comps., Joseph Frederick Thompson Ancestry [1996], 38.