'We came across the plains with the Edward Bunker Handcart Company in 1856. We had very very hard times, with scarcely enough food to sustain life and body, but Mother [Margaret Reese] said that we stood the trip better than many of the others. We sold all that we had at Fort Bridger for something to eat—a few silk handkerchiefs, etc. We saw several herd of buffalo. We killed some to eat. We arrived in Salt Lake City, October 2, 1856.[']