TO THE

PACIFIC,

FROM THE

VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO CALIFORNIA :

JOURNAL OF THE EXPEDITION

OF

E. F. BEALE, SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN
CALIFORNIA, AND GWINN HARRIS HEAP,

FROM

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MISSOURI TO CALIFORNIA, IN 1853.

BY

GWINN HARRIS HEAP.

PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, AND CO. 1854.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, AND CO.,

in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.

JOURNEY FROM WESTPORT TO THE MOUTH OF HUERFANO RIVER.

CHAPTER II.

ROUTE FROM HUERFANO RIVER TO THE COOCHATOPE PASS.

CHAPTER III.

PAGE

13

28

FROM COOCHATOPE PASS TO GRAND RIVER. LOSSES ON GRAND RIVER

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CHAPTER IV.

JOURNEY OF MR. HEAP TO NEW MEXICO, AND BACK. MR. BEALE'S SEPA-

RATE JOURNAL

52

CHAPTER V.

JOURNEY TO THE MORMON SETTLEMENTS NEAR LAS VEGAS de Santa Clara

71

CHAPTER VI.

Departure fROM LAS VEGAS de Santa CLARA. PASSAGE OF THE Desert.

ARRIVAL AT LOS ANGELES, CAL.

98

RÉSUMÉ OF THE CENTRAL ROUTE FROM WESTPORT, Mo., To Los ANGELES,

CAL.

ITINERARY OF THE CENTRAL ROUTE

113

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APPENDIX.

LETTERS FROM MR. CHAS. W. MCCLANAHAN, AND MR. R. S. WOOTTON 123, 125

CAMELS, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR HORSES, MULES, ETC.

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