The emigrants' guide to California : containing every point of information for the emigrant -- including routes, distances, water, grass, timber, crossing of rivers, passes, altitudes, with a large map of routes, and profile of country, &c., with full directions for testing and assaying gold and other ores

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I ' \ ~wv•v..,._. ~. ...... ~~· .... .,........,.._ ..,.~ .. - ....- b [Entered according to an Act of Congress, iQ. the year 1849, Y JOSEPH E. WARE, at the Clerks' Office of the District Court of the United State• for the District of Missouri.] ~~~~~~~~~~~...--.~~~~·,·~ We are authorised by MAJORS. P. SUBLETTE, the celebrated Mountain~er, to say that the "Emigrants' Guide to California" is accurate and complete in its deaoriptlona routes, &c. ~.,....,....,....~~~""'~""""""~~~ ST. LOUIS, MO . . PRINTED AT THI~ UNION OFFICE: 1 8 4 g. ' TO !fHE HON. THOMAS H. BENTON , SENATOR IN CONGRESS: This little volume is most repectfully dedicated ; from a conviction that the warm interest manifested by you on every occasion, in beh~lf of the inhabitants of the new territories of the south·west, . will not be abated by a pe­rusal of this fee hie attempt to guide the feet of the hardy sons of the west, to the fertile vales, and golden hills, of our recently acquired possessions on the great Pacific. Yours, respectfully, THE AUTHOR: