Abstract
Like many other reminiscences of the forty-niners the document here published is rich in human interest. For the most part not a journal of day-to-day happenings, it is anecdotal in character and presents the highlights of the author's experiences. It recounts a characteristic response to the news of gold discovery, relates several incidents of the journey along the Platte, and gives a vivid description of the Mormon community in the intermountain basin. The most significant disclosures concern the forty-niners on the trails southwest from Salt Lake, a phase of the rush to California which is discussed at length in the preceding paper.' The author comments on southern California, San Francisco, and his arrival at the diggings, and then closes abruptly with mention of his return to Iowa. Permission to publish was graciously accorded by the possessor of the manuscript, the author's daughter, S. Emma Stover, of Iowa City, Iowa. Thanks are also due her nephew, Ralph Rampton, who brought the manuscript to the editor's attention.
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