where he spent several years before going to Oregon. Eight or ten of his men also remained, prominent among whom were Moses Carson, Isaac Williams, Isaac Sparks, and Job F. Dye.[1]
In the winter of 1832-3 another party arrived from New Mexico, under circumstances nowhere recorded, so far as I have been able to learn. This party, the exact date of whose arrival is not known, included Joseph Paulding, Samuel Carpenter, William Chard, and Daniel Sill.[2] There are half a dozen other men of some prominence whose arrival is accredited to this period, and some of whom may have come with this company. Such were Cyrus Alexander of 1832; Lawrence Carmichael, Isaac Graham, and Jacob P. Leese of 1833; and Joseph L. Majors of 1834.[3] Most of these men were well known in California a little later; but of their coming there is nothing more to be said. The way from the south-east, notwithstanding the natural perils of the desert and the ever imminent danger of Apache hostilities, was in a certain sense an open one, and was often traversed by parties of two or three persons. It may be noted in this
- ↑ Dye, in his Recollections of Cal., a MS. written for me, and Recollections of a Pioneer, published in the Sta Cruz Sentinel, May 1, June 19, 1869, gives a complete narrative of this expedition, with many interesting details of personal adventure. Other authorities are Warner's Remin., MS., 11-21, 43-51; Los Angeles Hist., 19; Nidever's Life and Adven., MS., 36-7. Warner names as those who remained in Cal., Carson, Williams, Sparks, Ambrose Tomlinson, Joseph Dougherty, Wm Emerson, and Denton. Dye names as members of the company, Moses Carson, Sparks, Williams, Dye, Wm Day, Benj. Day, Sidney Cooper, Jos Gale, Jos Dofit, John Higgins, James Green, Cambridge Green, James Anderson, Thomas Low, Julian Vargas, José Teforia, and John Price. He also names as members of his original company from Arkansas, whom Nidever represents as having left that company and joined Young, Pleasant Austin, Powell Weaver, James Bacey, and James Wilkinson. Hace is added by Nidever. Some of these names are doubtless erroneous. Most of the men returned to N. Mexico, and some came back again. The two Days and Price at any rate were in Cal. a few years later, and may possibly have remained on this trip. Both Dye and Nidever mention the murder of Anderson by Cambridge Green in Arizona, for which Green was delivered to the authorities at Los Angeles. He escape from prison some time later.
- ↑ Los Angeles Hist., 19, Warner being the authority.
- ↑ Warner's Remin., MS., 58-61; and miscellaneous records of individual arrivals. Wm Ware and James Craig should perhaps be named in this connection.
