'Relación de su viaje en busca de oro': a first-person GOLD-PROSPECTING EXPEDITION NARRATIVE — the trip made by the tulareños was fatal; on reaching the rancherías of the Sonoltas some companions announced a catastrophe the Sierra Indians would cause, at the point they meant to seek gold; some went to inspect the Sierra called del Río de Reyes [Kings River], but there was no gold; at the 3-day reunion at the rancherías de los Guileches, they had earlier found a large number of Yaqui[?] Indians who had stalked them; all resolved to turn back; determined to seek the San Joaquín where at Bautista's there was gold-working; Guillermo with 7 men went ahead to look for people, & 3 leagues on with his companions, thinking to find the workers, met disaster — the Sierra Indians, ~300 at the ranchería del Chabailes, fired: Guillermo Gama, Faustino García, Bartolo Olivera, Francisco Archuleta, [Juan] Manuel of Nuevo México, Francisco Presidio[?], Sonora, y José Mª Salazar killed; only Lorenzo Espinosa of Nuevo México survived, hidden 4 days in a cave; Frémont with 30 men refused to go recover the corpses as futile; the emigrants lose hope of gold & flee the region for the danger — ⭐⭐⭐ a named-casualty account of a fatal 1849 Sierra gold-hunt & Indian ambush, Frémont implicated in the abandonment
| Date | 1849-05-23 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Mariano Pacheco |
| To | padrastro Juan Wilson |
| Place | Placer de los Tabualames [Tuolumne] |
| Series | Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents |
| Tomo | Unbound |
| Original tomo page | — |
| Savage copy page | 308 |
| Scan leaf | n310–311 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Mariano Pacheco to padrastro Juan Wilson, Placer de los Tabualames [Tuolumne], 1849-05-23, Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents, Unbound, —, Archives of California, C-A 63, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca63/ca63-d436.html