We continued up the river (April 1) to Kansas City and canped [campted] a short distance from there at Westpart where we stopped for some time, perhaps a month. There we got our outfit of teams and made ready for the journey acros the plains.

There the measels broke out in camp. I took them and having no care came near dying. I was bathing in the creck with the measels broke out on me and was sick all the way over the plains. In fact I have never got well of that to this day. The [they] left me with a cough and weak lungs. I do not recolect aney of the journey until on the Plat[te] where the Buffalow was the [they] where [were] so numerous that the[y] hade to correl the cattle to keep them from going with the Bufolow. 13 was killed near the camp. I was geting a little better and went to se [see] the neares [nurse] one then asked to go to the river to Bathe. The[y] tooke me there the watter was but 6 inches but when the[y] left me to Bathe I fainted and would have drowned if some one hade not seen me and helped me out. I do not recolect aney more of the journey til we got nearley to the valleys. When we got in the mountains I could get out of the waggon in the Evning.

October 5, 1854: Jensens Chronolegy says that Hans Peter Olsens companey of Emigrating Saints arieve in Salt Lake City Thuresday Oct 5th 1854, that meney hade died from chloera while crosing the planos [plains]. That is not correct. None died of chloera on the planes but on the Mississippi river.