Martha of California: A Story of the California Trail
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Otis James. Martha of California: A Story of the California Trail
A CHANGE OF HOMES
"JOE BOWERS"
THE REASONS FOR MOVING
MOTHER'S ANXIETY
HOW WE WERE TO TRAVEL
OUR MOVABLE HOME
LEAVING ASHLEY
EBEN JORDAN
ON THE ROAD
EBEN'S PREDICTIONS
WHAT WE HEARD ABOUT CALIFORNIA
THE FIRST ENCAMPMENT
NIGHT IN CAMP
THE TOWN OF INDEPENDENCE
KANSAS INDIANS
LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE FOR TROUBLE
A STORMY DAY
A LACK OF FUEL
MAKING CAMP IN A STORM
A THUNDERSTORM
ANOTHER COMPANY OF PIKERS
THE STOCK STRAY AWAY
AN INDIAN VILLAGE
I WEARY WITH SO MUCH TRAVELING
EBEN'S BOASTS
SUFFERING WITH THIRST
IN SEARCH OF WATER
QUENCHING OUR THIRST
MAKING BUTTER
A KANSAS FERRY
THE SURPRISE AT SOLDIER CREEK
BREAD MAKING
PRAIRIE PEAS
EBEN AS A HUNTER
A HERD OF BUFFALOES
EXCITEMENT IN THE CAMP
A FEAST OF BUFFALO MEAT
CURING THE MEAT
A WASH DAY
UNCOMFORTABLE TRAVELING
ELLEN'S ADVICE REGARDING THE STORY
INDIANS AND MOSQUITOES
PRAIRIE DOGS
COLONEL RUSSELL'S MISHAP
CHIMNEY ROCK
AT FORT LARAMIE
COOKING IN FRONT OF A FIREPLACE
TRAPPERS, HUNTERS, AND INDIANS
ON THE TRAIL ONCE MORE
INDEPENDENCE ROCK
ARRIVAL AT FORT BRIDGER
WITH OUR FACES TOWARD CALIFORNIA
AT BEAR RIVER
THE COMING OF WINTER
UTAH INDIANS
A DANGEROUS TRAIL
SUNFLOWER SEEDS AND ANTELOPE STEW
A FOREST FIRE
THE GREAT SALT LAKE
EBEN AS A FISHERMAN
GRASSHOPPER JAM
A DESERTED VILLAGE
THE GREAT SALT DESERT
PREPARING FOR A DANGEROUS JOURNEY
BREAD AND COFFEE MAKING
BREAKING CAMP AT MIDNIGHT
THE APPROACH TO THE SALT DESERT
A PLAIN OF SALT
LIKE A SEA OF FROZEN MILK
SALT DUST
A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT
COFFEE INSTEAD OF WATER
A SPRING OF SWEET WATER
THE OASIS
SEARCHING FOR WATER
THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY
SNAKE INDIANS
A SCARCITY OF FOOD
SPRINGS OF HOT WATER
IN THE LAND OF PLENTY
THE TRUCKEE RIVER
A HOME IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY
THE MISSION OF SAN JOSÉ
OUR HOME IN CALIFORNIA
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In case one should ask in the years to come how it happened that I, Martha Early, who was born in Ashley, Pike County, in the state of Missouri, and lived there until I was twelve years old, journeyed across the prairies and deserts to California, the question can be answered if I write down what I saw when so many people from our county went to make new homes in that state where gold had been found in such abundance.
For my part, I used to wonder why people should be willing to leave Missouri, enduring the many hardships they knew awaited them on the journey of two thousand miles, in order to buy land in a country where nearly all the inhabitants were Spaniards and Mexicans.
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My father had no idea of going so far simply to dig for gold. He had seen many who went across the country in 1849 believing they would come back rich as kings, yet who returned home poorer in pocket than when they left; therefore he came to understand that only a few of all that vast army of miners who hastened into California after the discovery at Sutter's Mill, got enough of the precious metal to pay for the food they ate.
Father thought he could buy better land in California than was to be found in Pike County, for to have heard the stories told by some of the people who had come back disappointed from the land of gold, you might have believed that one had only to put a few seeds at random in the ground in order to gather marvelous crops.
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