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CONTENTS
ERRATA
ILLUSTRATIONS
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

The Gold Seekers of ’49

A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trail andAdventures in California and Oregonfrom 1849 to 1854.

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BY KIMBALL WEBSTERA New England Forty-Niner

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With an Introduction and Biographical Sketch
By George Waldo Browne

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IllustratedBy Frank Holland and Others

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Manchester, N. H.
STANDARD BOOK COMPANY
1917

Copyrighted 1917

George W. Browne

DEDICATION.

To My Five Daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Jane Martin, Mrs. Eliza BallLeslie, Mrs. Julia Anna Robinson, Mrs. Mary Newton Abbott, all ofHudson, N. H., and Mrs. Ella Frances Walch, of Nashua; and to thesweet memory of that loved Deceased Daughter, Latina Ray Webster,who quietly passed to the other side of the “Great Divide,”November 12, 1887, this narrative is most respectfully dedicated bythe

Author
KIMBALL WEBSTER

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HON. KIMBALL WEBSTER.

It is with keen regret and sorrow that we are called upon to record thegoing out of the life of the author of the following pages, who has diedsince work was begun upon the book. Mr. Webster was born in Pelham, N.H., November 2, 1828, the seventh child and third son of John and Hannah(Cummings) Webster. His education was acquired in the schools of hisnative town and Hudson, N. H. He grew up inured to the hard work upon aNew England farm, besides working in granite quarries in his 19th and20th years. In April, 1849, a little over six months before he wastwenty-one, with others scattered all over the country, he caught thegold fever. Characteristic of his methodical ways, he kept a journal ofhis journey across the country and of his experiences as

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