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Wagon trains
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Wagon train reaches Pleasants Valley / Bowen, Jerry [627] [WAYITWAS-2006-627]
In my last column, we left James and William Pleasants at Bidwell Bar near Marysville in California.
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Harlan's Wagon Train from "The Gold Book"
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Wagon Train Routes by Frank Pangburn Wagon Train Routes by Frank Pangburn
2005

Frank Pangburn shares his insight into geneaological research, and his ancestors arrival by wagon train in Solano County in 1846. Recorded on April 23, 2005 at the Pioneer Day Reunion at Rockville Church in Suisun Valley. Introduction by Mary Higham, Director of the Solano County Historical Society..


Running Time: 42:52
Video Format: 720x480 4/3, 29.97 - DVD
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Wagon train finally reaches gold country / Bowen, Jerry [625] [WAYITWAS-2006-625]
In my last installment of James Pleasants' trek to California, the wagon train members were able to gather scant water for themselves at Rabbit Springs - also known as Rabbit Hole Springs - and began making their way across a portion of the Black Rock Desert.
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Cholera plagued wagon trains on trip west / Bowen, Jerry [621] [WAYITWAS-2006-621]
In my last article, we began following the long wagon trip to California in 1849 with James S. Pleasants and his family. They had named the wagon train the Pleasant Hill Wagon Train in honor of the town they had been living near in Missouri.
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A perilous wagon-train trip west / Bowen, Jerry [133] [WAYITWAS-2002-133]
In my last column we left the wagon train on the banks of the Colorado River, south of today's Bullhead City, Ariz., with 13 wounded and Alpha Brown dead from an Indian attack.
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Trevails of a desperate wagon train / Bowen, Jerry [131] [WAYITWAS-2002-131]
In the first part of this tale, John Udell and his wife Emily left their Missouri home in 1858 by wagon train for California. They intended to live out their lives with their son Oliver who had settled in Allendale in 1850.
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Wagon folks hoped for land of plenty / Bowen, Jerry [149] [WAYITWAS-2003-149]
Not all the wagon trains that headed west to California in the 1800s were on a quest for riches found in the gold mines of the Golden State.
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Pioneer McMahan experienced risky times / Bowen, Jerry [9] [WAYITWAS-2000-9]
Much has been written about the wagon trains and the thousands who fell under the spell of the Gold Rush. But there were those that paved the way, so to speak, for the '49ers. One of the more notable early wagon trains was that of the Bidwell-Bartleson party. It can be said their journey marked the beginning of the settlement of the far West.
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