The Motor Transport Convoy left Green River and made 63 miles to Ft. Bridger, opting to stay on the location of that former post. The post had been occupied intermittently since the 1840s, but had been last abandoned by the Army in 1890.
The entry that day was the longest to date because of the diarist interest in a significant engineering project the party undertook.
The trip made the local papers retrospectively.
At the same time, it looked like the tensions on the border with Mexico were about to erupt into war once again. The Cheyenne, Casper and Laramie newspapers took note of the renewed tensions and didn't take note of the Motor Convoy at all.
