Important, early account of the migration to California in the years prior to the Gold Rush, highly influential, serving as a vitual guide to the the 49ers. Wagner-Camp notes that "Camp called the Bryant work `one of the most detailed and reliable of all the overland journals' and rated with with Clayton's and Schmolder's books as the three competent guides to be published in 1848. Moreover, 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. Provenance: From the Library of William Augustus Brewer.