California 1849-1913
or
The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in
that State



By
L. H. Woolley
Member of the Society of California Pioneers and of the Vigilance
Committee of 1856




California



1849-1913



Trip Across the Plains.

The year 1849 has a peculiarly thrilling sensation to the California
Pioneer, not realized by those who came at a later date. My purpose in
recording some of my recollections of early days is not for publication
nor aggrandizement, but that it may be deposited in the archives of my
descendants, that I was one of those adventurers who left the Green