midnight
It kept up the rest of the day , and by night it was three or four inches deep . We stopped at noon at Lance Creek , and made our night camp at Willow Creek ; at each place there was a stage station in charge of one man . It cleared off as night came on , but the wind changed to the north , and it grew rapidly colder . Shortly after midnight we all woke up with the cold . We already had everything piled on the beds , but as we were too cold to sleep , there was nothing to do but to get up and start the camp-fire again . This we did , and stayed near it the rest of the night , and in this way kept warm at the expense of our sleep . The morning was clear , but it was by far the coldest we had experienced .