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 CHAPTER XIV.

PIONEERS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS.

1831-1835.

OVERLAND immigration of trappers and traders into California continued to some extent during 1831-5. Several parties came in by the Gila routes from New Mexico, and at least one crossed the mountains farther north, as the companies of James O. Pattie and Ewing Young and Jedediah Smith had done at an earlier date. The subject retains all its fascination and importance of the preceding period, and also, unfortunately, its meagreness of record. Warner and Nidever furnished me in their personal recollections most interesting and valuable information, as have other immigrants of that epoch in greater or less degree. Bonneville and Joe Meek have had their recollections recorded by the pens of Irving arfd Victor. Statements of Joe Walker and other path-finding pioneers have found their way more or less fully and