The California Trail, 1841: Dead Ends and Gold Fields 

In winter?

Save that diary! Transcribe it and cherish your ancestors, my friend! I love hearing stories like this.

He left from Greenville Ohio…really no Idea what was ahead!

The city park in Chico, CA is named after him. It's very large, I think he donated the land.

@@dfirth224 true. One of the largest city parks in the country. Beautiful place

You can tour The Bidwell Mansion in Chico, Calif. I spent most of an evening there. Quite interesting.

John Bidwell was born in eastern NY in 1819 and was living in Missouri in 1840 when he was claim jumped and thus began his trek to California in 1841. Up on arriving he befriended John Sutter and lived at Sutter's Fort until 1848 when Gold was discovered in Coloma. He was encouraged by Sutter to make his own claim and ventured to the Feather River Area where he discovered gold on July 4 1848 founding the towns of Oroville and Chico. He became a very wealthy man and ran for President in 1892 finishing fourth. I wrote a paper on him in 5th grade and recycled it for college 35 years later! ( got a A both times!)

I was thinking the same thing. 😢

Had*

me no understand? Now it's pronounced TRUCK-EE. no big deal. right?

Will they never learn?

Many of them were escaping debt. Some of them were chasing gold. Their were those who couldn't afford land and wanted to make claims and though it might not be so in much of the Midwest most of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota were unsettled except by French trappers until the late 1800s early 1900s. But the land was all bought up by big logging Peter wherehauser who was the richest man in the world for some time off of the lumber

*FYI, no apostrophe is needed on those plurals.

Keep in mind that many settlers at that time left the comforts of their developed cities and countries to pursue the promise of a better life. They sacrificed the “progress” made in those places, and I have no doubt that if we were pushed in this time outside of the confines of our cities and comforts, either through the nature of our planet or our own nature as humans, that we could make a trip like this. That’s the fascinating thing about humans. Regardless of place or time, grit or resolve has won the continuation of our species. This is only made possible by the fact that grit and resolve are not attributes of a time and place in humankind, they are attributes of humankind that allow us to persist, regardless of time or place. We will do what we must, regardless of the circumstances.

Couldn't a picture of Caleb Greenwood.

every etymology source I checked says it's pronounced Truhk-ee, he did it perfectly .

@@emadbagheri . true key ?

@@creaturecaldwell9858 no, more like truHck (heavy H) and then Eeee, stretched out ... kind of like saying chuck-eeee-cheese, with the E drawn out

@@emadbagheri The Natives spoke it like you, still do. When in Rome...haha!

Us Nevadans tend to change pronunciations to suit our needs. As is the case with our state name.

I won't subscribe until you understand sentence structure, nouns, etc.

That was/is the indian pronunciation

You mean 49 ers?

I don't think so