. A history of the United States. MAP SHOWING THETERRITORY ACQUIRED FROM MEXICO AS THE RESULT OF THE MEXICAN WAR from Greenwicil Longitude West DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA 359 California. All were abandoned. Even the courts were closedfor want of anybody to attend them. A ship which came toanchor in San Francisco Bay was immediately deserted bythe crew. The captain saw nothing better to do and set offfor the diggings, leaving his ship under the care of his a year $5,000,000 worth of gold had been taken out andduring the next ten years nearly one hundred times as of th
. A history of the United States. MAP SHOWING THETERRITORY ACQUIRED FROM MEXICO AS THE RESULT OF THE MEXICAN WAR from Greenwicil Longitude West DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA 359 California. All were abandoned. Even the courts were closedfor want of anybody to attend them. A ship which came toanchor in San Francisco Bay was immediately deserted bythe crew. The captain saw nothing better to do and set offfor the diggings, leaving his ship under the care of his a year $5,000,000 worth of gold had been taken out andduring the next ten years nearly one hundred times as of the American people, therefore, looked upon thewar with Mexico as a piece of good fortune. The Forty-Niners. — The discovery of gold in Califor-nia gave the westward movement a new turn. The adven-turers who went out the next year, the Forty-niners, were. The Overland Route to California more like the Argonauts of old or De Sotos men seeking theEl Dorado in North America than the other pioneers. Emi-grants from Europe and from the eastern states sailed aroundCape Horn or crossed the Isthmus of Panama. Those whowent by the Isthmus of Panama rode mules across thenarrow pass, braving the dangers of tropical fever and ofrobber bands. Steamboats, which were just coming into usefor long voyages, found crowds at New York and Panamaclamoring for passage. The favorite route for most American immigrants startedon the Missouri and followed the Oregon Trail and its branchto Cahfornia. Caravans of prairie schooners, cavalcades ofhorsemen, the poorer adventurers afoot, dotted the trail onthe desert plains. Their number made the Oregon migra-tion seem small by comparison. On the trail the Forty- 360 THE WINNING OF THE PACIFIC COAST niners passed Salt Lake where the Mormons/ a new reli-gious sect, were irrigating the sage-brush plain and turning itint
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