First published in The Family Visitor of Cleveland and Hudson Ohio in 1850 and 1851, noted in Wagner-Camp as "one of the most readable of all the overland accounts of the gold-rush days." Sawyer went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Cowan p.570; Graff 3687; Howes S133; Kurutz 556; Mintz 403; Wagner-Camp 191 (note).