Sacramento-Yolo County CA Archives News.....Arrival of Families by the Overland Route October 2, 1854
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Sacramento Daily Union October 2, 1854
“Arrival of Families by the Overland Route — Difficulties with Indians- 
Scarcity of Grass, &c., &c. 

The following immigrants, from Cooper county, Mo., have arrived in this city 
[Sacramento] by the way of Fort Leavenworth, Salt Lake and Carson Valley: 
Abraham Barnes and family, David Workman and family, William Barnes and wife, 
Z. B. Kincheloe and family, Mr. McGraff and family. The train consisted of six 
wagons and two carriages.

In the neighborhood of the Platte River the party encountered several tribes of 
well-armed Indians, and just before they reached that river they were surprised 
by the appearance of sixty natives of the Cheyenne and Sioux tribes, all armed 
with revolvers, guns or lances. These presented themselves in a hostile 
attitude and demanded of the train provisions. The emigrants, being unable to 
divine their wants, failed to comply with their demands, when the Chief sent an 
avant courier to camp, but continued meanwhile in company with the whites. On 
the borders of a creek the messenger returned with an escort of upwards of two 
hundred finely dressed warriors, armed to the teeth, who at once surrounded the 
wagons and reiterated their former demand, which the party comprehending, 
complied with, rather than be annihilated by the savages. A train in the rear 
of this fared not so well, as it was plundered most effectually.

All of the streams on the plains were low, and the party had not the slightest 
difficulty at the crossings. 

The train stopped in the Great Salt Lake Valley a few days to recruit 
themselves and stock.

The country about Lawson's, Big Meadows and Carson River was scant of feed, and 
from the latter stream the animals were driven up to the base of the mountains, 
where they fed on the rank bunch grass which there abounds. 

This party have enjoyed uninterrupted health ever since they left the Missouri 
River.” END


Additional Comments:
Sacramento Daily Union, October 2, 1854 (Monday), Page 2, Column 2.
If the Abraham Barnes mentioned is Abraham Gardiner Barnes, then he and his 
family settled near Woodland in Yolo County.

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