Copied from an autobiographical sketch of Heber Robert McBride.

[The following takes place in October 1865, during a journey to find and escort emigrants to Salt Lake. Heber Robert McBride lived in Ogden and Ogden Valley areas in the late 1850s and 1860s.]

The weather was quite warm [near Ham’s Fork], so we had to jerk out our meat to keep it from spoiling. I happened to be the only one that knew how it was done, as I had watched the Indians.