The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Volume 4; V. 21 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... an Indian guide to whom the name Truckee had been given on account Schallenberger, Elisha Stevens, John Sullivan, Michael Sullivan, Robert Sullivan, and John Townsend. The most complete list is that in the S. F. Call, Sept. 13, 1864, by a woman who seems to have been one of the party, perhaps Mrs Montgomery; but it does not specify those who came to Cal. as distinguished from those who went to Oregon. My list has been revised by Schallenberger, who is my only authority for Flomboy and Patterson, the latter a boy with the Hitchcock family, and whose name should perhaps take the place of Hitchcock, Jr. The Orerpyi Pion. Assoc., 1876, p. 42, gives also the name of Jackson. Some authorities name James M. Harbin as distinct from Matthew Harbin. Some include Wm J. Martin in this party instead of the Chiles company of 1843. Bray, in his Memoir of a Trip to Cal., MS., names 25 of those who came to Gal. He gives the date of departure as May 18th; says they camped July 4th at Independence Rock, when a child was born in the Miller family; dates the separation at Ft Hall in Sept., and the arrival at the sink about Oct. 24th. Clyman, Diary, MS., describes the march to Ft Hall, and says the Hitchcock party, with 13 wagons, left the Oregon company on or about Sept. 13th. Thos Gray, a resident of S. F. in 1884, intended to cross the plains in 1844, but changed his mind. Through the influence of Senator Benton he got a pass dated March 29th, the original of which he showed me with a letter from Benton. Doubtless there were many similar cases. luThe writer in the Call absurdly says that the loss of these journals gave Fremont his title as 'path-finder, 'since the latter followed in Stevens' tracks and renamed the streams, etc., which he pretended to discover. The writer supp...