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Show 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 Edited ly FRANK HEYWOOD HODDER Professor of American History, University of Kansas With folded map, portrait, and original drawings ^ OHN W. AUDUBON, son of the famous ornithologist, was a member of Colonel Webb's California Expedition which started from New York City for the gold-fields in February, 1849. The Journal consists of careful notes which Audubon made en route. It was written with a view to publication, accompanied by a series of sketches made at intervals during the journey; but owing to Audubon's pre- occupation with other affairs, the plan of publication was never realized. The Journal is, therefore, here published for the first time, and is illustrated by the author's original sketches, carefully reproduced. It gives a vivid first- hand picture of the difficulties of an overland journey to California, and of the excitements, dangers, and privations of life in the |
