Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have
been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.

The following alternative spellings were left unchanged:

maguey, maguay
muscale, muscalle
Tomochic, Tomochi
Carrol, Carroll
Mokulumne, Mokelumne, Mokolumne, Mokelumme
Barratt, Barrat
Brazos, Brasos
Tarimari, Taromari
Tuolumne, Tuolomne, Tuolome
Pittsburgh, Pittsburg
Parral, Parras
Tom McKenny, Tom McKinney

In several places a "(?)" or "[?]" appears in the text. These have
been left as printed.

AUDUBON'S WESTERN JOURNAL

1849-1850

AUDUBON'S WESTERN
JOURNAL: 1849-1850

Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to
Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico
and Arizona to the gold-fields of California

BY
_JOHN W. AUDUBON_

With biographical memoir by his daughter
MARIA R. AUDUBON

Introduction, notes, and index by
FRANK HEYWOOD HODDER
Professor of American History, University of Kansas

_With folded map, portrait, and original drawings_

Cleveland
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1906

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. _Frank Heywood Hodder_ 11

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. _Maria R. Audubon_ 21

AUDUBON'S WESTERN JOURNAL: 1849-1850

I. New York to Texas 41

II. Disaster in the Valley of the Rio Grande 58

III. Mexico from the Rio Grande to the
Mountains 84

IV. Across the Mexican Mountains to Altar 106

V. Through Arizona to San Diego 146

VI. California from San Diego to San Francisco 174

VII. A Tour of the Gold-fields 199

APPENDIX: LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL
COMPANY 241

INDEX 245

ILLUSTRATIONS

JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON _Frontispiece_

JESUS MARIA, LOOKING NORTHWEST; July 20, 1849 123

TWENTY-FIVE MILES WEST OF JESUS MARIA; July
29, 1849 131

SAN FRANCISCO, LOOKING EAST FROM THE WESTWARD
HILLS TOWARD SAN JOSÉ; May 30, 1850 191

HAWKINS'S BAR, TUOLUMNE, LOOKING SOUTHEAST;
April 1, 1850 219

"A DRY GULCH" AT COLOMA, SUTTER'S MILLS;
May 2, 1850 235

MAP OF AUDUBON'S ROUTE _At end of volume_