. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. N FEBRUARY 22, 1849, ourlittle party of six set out fromSouth Bend, Indiana, for the newly discovered gold-fields i lp^^\>^f*^rrg||| of California. The members Ip^.^~•^^v^^^f f/ ^^^ ^^^^ P^^ty were William S\}m-^^i^J^-^lll Good, Michael Donahue, Thomas Rockhill, William , Thomas Dudley Neal,and the writer (David ).. All were young — the oldest twenty-five,the youngest seventeen. Our equipment consisted oftwo wagons, seven yoke of oxen, and two years sup-plies. The long journey before us, the com
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. N FEBRUARY 22, 1849, ourlittle party of six set out fromSouth Bend, Indiana, for the newly discovered gold-fields i lp^^\>^f*^rrg||| of California. The members Ip^.^~•^^v^^^f f/ ^^^ ^^^^ P^^ty were William S\}m-^^i^J^-^lll Good, Michael Donahue, Thomas Rockhill, William , Thomas Dudley Neal,and the writer (David ).. All were young — the oldest twenty-five,the youngest seventeen. Our equipment consisted oftwo wagons, seven yoke of oxen, and two years sup-plies. The long journey before us, the comparativelyunknown region through which it lay, and the glamourof the object for which it was undertaken, lent our ad-venture considerable local interest, so that many-friends and spectators were present to witness our de-parture, our two covered wagons being objects of muchcurious concern as they rolled out Washington street,with their three thousand miles chiefl} of wildernessbefore them. But for us the occasion had few diggings had been discovered but a twelvemo
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