Produced by Rachael Schultz, Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) 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 [Illustration: JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON] 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