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the entire crew of the California, except for the Captain and one other officer, deserted for the gold fields.
126. Faulk, Destiny Road, p. 64.
127. Perrigo, American Southwest, p. 181.
128. Wilson, Historical Profile, p. 17.
129. See Appendix B for Hayes’ extensive list of
his supplies and equipment for the trip.
130. MarjorieTisdaleWolcott(ed),PioneerNotes from the Diaries ofJudge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875 (Los Angeles: Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott, 1929), pp.
13-14 (hereafter cited as Wolcott, “Hayes”). 131. Ibid., pp. 16-22.
132. Ibid., p. 25.
133. Ibid., p. 32.
134. Ibid., pp. 33-34. Hayes either left out some names or was inconsistent because he also noted that his company was 77 strong with 168 animals and that the “Chicago company of wagons was also with us.”
135. A group that ate together and shared camp chores was referred to as a mess.
136. Ibid., pp. 35-38. The comment about the heat of the day is curious in light of the fact that a few days later, on Sunday, November 18, water froze in the containers.
137. Ibid., p. 39. The Hayes company found Foster’s Hole that day, so it was still in use at that time.
138. This would indicate that previous parties had been digging for better and clearer water.
139. Ibid., p. 40. There is now a marker at this site, about 300 yards west of the spring.
140. Ibid., p. 45. It cost them $2 for each mule or horse and $1 for each person carried across the river. 141. Much to his surprise, Hayes found that one member of the Mexican Boundary Commission was a Senor Iturbide with whom he had attended Saint
Mary’s College.
142. Ibid., p. 46. No mention was made of the
Sonoran parties. Actually, many of the parties were from other eastern locations and had only assembled in Missouri. At no time on their entire trip west was the Hayes party attacked by Indians. Perhaps this was because the Apaches had not yet been insulted by Commissioner Bartlett’s actions or sufficiently annoyed by the miners.
143. Bieber, Southwestern Trails, p. 36.
144. Kenneth L. Holmes (ed.), Covered Wagon Women Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890, Vol. 1 (Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark
Company, 1983), p. 251 (hereafter cited as Holmes, Covered Wagon Women).
145. Ibid., pp. 251-254.
146. Frazer, Forts and Supplies, pp. 34-35.
147. Holmes, Covered Wagon Women, pp. 254,
267.
148. Ibid., p. 247. Douglas Sloane Walker, West
Wind: TheLifeStoryofJosephReddefordWalker (MorongoValley,California: TheSagebrushPress, 1984), p. 109.
149. Martin, “C. C. Cox,” pp. 132-134; Nancy Hamilton, “The Great Western,” The Women Who Made the West (Garden City: Doubleday & Com- pany, Inc., 1980), pp. 192-193. In addition to several other married names, Sarah was also known as Boginnis, Borginnis, Bourget, Bourdette, Bourjette, or Bouget.
150. DouglasDeVenyMartin,YumaCrossing (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1954), pp. 133, 159-160.
151. Martin, “C. C. Cox”, pp. 133-134.
152. Ibid., p. 134.
153. Ibid., p. 135. This may have been by com-
parison because, as Louisiana Strentzel had ob- served, the grass along the river was excellent, and in addition, the grass nearby the only significant water around would naturally suffer most.
154. Ibid., p. 136.
155. Robert Eccleston, Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail, 1849, edited by George P. Hammond and Edward H. Howes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950), p. 3 (hereafter cited as Eccleston, Overland).
156. Ibid., pp. 150-163.
157. Austerman, “Desperado,” p. 57; James Kim- mins Greer, Colonel Jack Hays: Texas Frontier Leader and California Builder (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987), p. 241 (hereafter cited as Greer, Hays). For simplification, the combined train will continue to be called the Fremont Association.
158. Eccleston, Overland, p. 164. For a narrative of the La Grange Company, see Carlo M. De Ferrari (ed.), “The Journal of the La Grange Company, being the Record of a Journey from Texas to Califor- nia in 1849,” The [Tuolumne County, California] Quarterly, Vol. 6 (1966-1967) and Vol. 7 (1967-1968). Unfortunately John Murchison, the first of three
journalists for the association, died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot July 28 (or 27), 1849. The
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