Captain Joseph Walker
Joseph Walker was a mountain man and explorer. In 1843 and 1848 he pioneered the segment of the California Trail, the primary route for the emigrants to the gold fields during the California [...]
Captain Elijah Stephens
Elijah Stephens was a mountain man and a trapper who had spent a lot of time in the Pacific Northwest. He captained the first wagon train to get wagons over the Sierra Nevada in 1844.
Nancy Kelsey
Nancy Kelsey, who traveled with her husband Ben and the Bidwell Bartleson Party to California in 1841. She reached California in November of that year with a toddler in tow, have walked or [...]
John Bidwell
John Bidwell was the younger of two men who led the Bidwell-Bartleson party to California in 1841. (The other was John Bartleson.) Having pushed hard to reach what became northeastern Nevada, [...]