Important, early account of the migration to California in the years prior to the Gold Rush, highly influential, serving as a virtual guide to the 49ers. Wagner-Camp - "...Bryant's narrative is of further interest because of its description of the life and times of American Californians before the discovery of gold." Cowan p.81; Graff 457; Howes B903; Kurutz 95a; Mintz 65; Streeter 3147; Wagner-Camp 146:1; Zamorano Eighty 12.