. Our country in story . egon soon poured pell-mell into the Sacramento Valley. Several more rich deposits of the precious metal werediscovered, and soon the glittering yellow flakes werepicked up almost anywhere. The report passed like wild-fire from one village, town, and city to another. Withina surprisingly short time it reached every part of found its way across the ocean and sped rapidlythroughout the countries of Europe. By 1849 it hadreached every civilized country on the globe. THE WEST IS LINKED WITH THE EAST 319 From all parts of the world the emigrants now flockedto the
. Our country in story . egon soon poured pell-mell into the Sacramento Valley. Several more rich deposits of the precious metal werediscovered, and soon the glittering yellow flakes werepicked up almost anywhere. The report passed like wild-fire from one village, town, and city to another. Withina surprisingly short time it reached every part of found its way across the ocean and sped rapidlythroughout the countries of Europe. By 1849 it hadreached every civilized country on the globe. THE WEST IS LINKED WITH THE EAST 319 From all parts of the world the emigrants now flockedto the land of gold. Growing fields of grain were leftunreaped; workshops were abandoned; ships went to seawith scarcely enough men to spread the sails; even themilitary posts were deserted. On ships, nineteen thou-sand miles by way of Cape Horn, the fortune seekers took the shorter route of five thousand miles byway of Panama. Going by steamer to the isthmus, theycrossed the narrow neck with great difficulty on mule-. EMIGRANTS ON THEIR WAY TO CALIFORNIA back and then proceeded again by boat to San of the emigrants, however, went overland. On foot,on horseback, and in prairie schooners they wended theirweary way of two thousand miles along one of the severaltrails to the West. They always started from some pointon the Missouri, whence most of them followed theOregon Trail by way of the Platte River and the SouthPass as far as Fort Hall, from where they traveled downthe Humboldt Valley and across the Sierra Nevada Moun-tains to Sutters Fort. Like a great army the emigrant trains filled the roadsfor miles. By night their campfires glittered in everydirection about the places favored with fresh water andgrass. A traveler on the Oregon Trail once counted overfour hundred and fifty prairie schooners in a distance often miles. 320 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY Over plains and mountains and deserts the gold-seekerstrudged. Mothers, leading their children by the hand,climbed
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