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MARCH OF THE CARAVAN
From "The Expedition of the Donner Party"

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Title: California; an intimate history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948
Subjects: California -- History
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tle and a bucket, salted down. WhenKeysburg, assisted by a rope round his neck, recoveredhis mind, he confessed to having murdered and eatenportions not only of this brave woman, who had perhapsconsciously dared worse than the Sierra storms to consoleher dying husband, but of others, before the second reliefparty had come. Nor did he deny the story that a child,perishing with cold, had crept one night into his blankets,and that he had devoured it before morning. Such law as there was in the country seemed to breakdown before this monster. A year or two later theAmericans would have lynched him; but Sutter, knowingthe effect of the terrible stillnesses under falling snow, themonotonies of a long Sierra winter, and the hunger andprivation that poison the brain with vitiated blood, lethim go. He lived miserably in the mountains for therest of his life, shunned as a pariah. Sutter had had men engaged in looking for a site for asawmill when Fremont arrived and set the country by itsii8 3 o
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GOLD ears. Yerba Buena, the immigrants, and various settle-ments springing to life along the Sacramento River de-manded lumber, and the man who supplied them wouldmake a fortune. Sutter, in spite of his baronial domainand his many enterprises, was always in debt, and hewoiild have put this new idea for increasing his revenuesinto immediate execution had not Fremont carried offnearly all the able-bodied men in the north. Sutter also wanted lumber for a projected flour-millfrom which there would be another fine revenue, but thelumber must be brought from the Sierras. Finally animmigrant from New Jersey drifted in, a wheelwright byoccupation, James W. Marshall by name, to whom Suttergave work, and soon recognized as an honest and indus-trious man, if somewhat surly and erratic. He talkedover his schemes for the two mills with him, and the up-shot was that Marshall agreed to find a site and build andmanage the sawmill if Sutter would take him into partner-ship. Those were frontier days wh

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