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Robert Wallace, the father of Evelyn, was not one of the forty-niners, but he had come to California by way of the Isthmus not very many years later. Always of an adventurous turn, it was on his fourteenth birthday that he ran away from his home in Baltimore to become a stowaway on board a south-bound vessel.
However, the Forty-niners aboard her had not much thought for the looks of the city; their minds were more upon whether the Georgia had arrived, and how soon they could get aboard her, for the Isthmus and California gold fields. In the excitement of bustling ashore Charley forgot all about the long-nosed man, who disappeared with the other scattering passengers.
The next moment Jim's tall form filled the doorway. "Good evening, folks. I can't resist the habit of the sod shack days to come right into the kitchen. I understand that we forty-niners are to have an old settlers' reunion while the young folks dance," he said. There were lines of care on his face now, suggesting a bodily weariness that might never grow less.
Born seventy-five years earlier he would certainly have been one of those intrepid Forty-niners; a fearless canvas-covered fleet crawling painfully across a continent, conquering desert and plain and mountain; starving, thirsting, fighting Indians, eating each other if necessity demanded, with equal dexterity and dispatch. Perhaps a trip like this would have satisfied his wanderlust. Probably not.
It may not be inappropriate to make some general remarks about the history of California. Although my subject is strictly on the days of forty-niners, which consisted of about two years from the discovery of the gold, when it was supposed that the future prosperity of the country depended exclusively on the mining interest. How different it has turned out since has nothing to do with my subject.
I can be quite impersonal, keen, steady of hand and brain, if you are out of the city." "Very well, I will go." "The day the fire is over I will go for you and we will marry and live in any shanty we can find begin life together like any Forty-niners. You can help others as much as you choose then. There will be work for all but now there is not, cannot be until organization begins.
Some went overland, some crossed by the Isthmus of Panama, some went around South America, filling California with a population of strong, adventurous, and daring men. These were the "forty-niners."
And the same week there was a company at another theatre there playing the old man's 'Forty-Niners. And the next morning the theatrical critic's article in the Hannibal Courier-Post was headed: 'Rival attractions.
The greater part of the low ground was a bay in 1849, but it has since been filled in by the drifting sands blown from the ocean side by the prevailing west winds and by earth dumped into it. Much of this land was "made ground." Forty-niners still alive say that when they first saw San Francisco the waters of the bay came up to Montgomery Street.
The Californians make a Free-State Constitution.% When Taylor heard that gold hunters were hurrying to California from all parts of the world, he was very anxious to have some permanent government in California; and encouraged by him the pioneers, the "forty-niners," made a free-state constitution in 1849 and applied for admission into the Union.
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