Description
First overland mail to California (in wagon train led by Col. Chiles, 1848); notes on early days in El Dorado Co.; James W. Marshall; sales and transfers to Sutter's Fort and Sutter's Mill; ferry on the American River.
With typed transcripts and transcript of advertisement, Alta California, Apr. 6, 1849, for Sutter House and freighting company operated by Alden S. Bayley and M.T. McClellan in Sacramento.