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Crossed the plains in 1853

Account of Teophiel Graff working as a teamster, scout and mail man for various trading companies, driving wagons and mail along the route from Kansas City to Laramie WY to Bridger UT. He's describes several encounters with Indians including a Massacre of US Army troops at Fort Laramie in the fall of 1854 in a dispute over a single sickly cow - "The Indians soon surrounded the soldiers and not one of them escaped. Mr. Graff witnessed the killing and scalping of thirty four people." He also tells of walking 108 miles on foot in winter to deliver mail from Fort Laramie to Fort Vaskett - "He traveled alone and on foot and made one trip a month. Besides the mail, he carried food and bedding, as there were no settlements between the forts. He saw thousands of buffalos in one herd. The animals were on every side of him as far as he could see at times."

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