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. . . & on 27 ^th June 1856 I with my Mother [Eliza Salt Armstrong] & son [Thomas Columbus Armstrong, Jr.] started up the River for Florence in route for G. S. L. City (my wife [Elizabeth Halse Armstrong] refused staying behind in St. Louis)[.] After a short stay at Florence to get Cattle the[n] We started in company with the First Hand Cart Company across the plains. I staid at Laramie to buy a yoke of Cattle which caused a weeks detention[.] After travelling from there a few days alone we fell in with the 3 ^rd Hand Cart company & rolled on with them & finally arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake on Sunday 5 ^th / 56 all well