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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sun: Is no best way to say thanks. Acknowledgments are a way
fe) f repaying people and institutions with non-negotiable words
for services rendered. As Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have asked—
but did not—‘‘How do I use thee? Let me count the ways.” Fortunately,
some are recompensed by an employer for doing what I require—librarians, for instance. For their cheerfulness as well as their excellence and
professionalism, I thank Frances Burton and Dorothy Boettner of the
Nevada City branch of the Nevada County Library, and Grace Imoto of
the California State Library. I also thank the many volunteers who staff
the Sacramento library of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Russell E. Bidlack kindly gave me permission to quote from the letters
of David McCollum and Caleb Ormsby which were previously published
in his book, Letters Home: The Story of Ann Arbor’s Forty-Niners. The
words of James Wilkins in Chapter 18 are quoted with the permission of
the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, publisher of An Artist
on the Overland Trail: The 1849 Diary and Sketches of James F. Wilkins. . am indebted to Frances G. Long, Fred Searls II, and William H.
Miller, Jr., for permission to use letters of the Niles and Searls families.
I have made much use of Rolfe family information provided by
Catherine J. Webb, both in her books and in her correspondence with
me. Phyllis Gernes steered me in the direction of John Steele’s memoirs, In
Camp and Cabin, at an important point in my research. Rebecca and
Kevin Dwan read and criticized my earliest efforts, as did Susan Wolbarst, Janet Haseley and Frances Long, all of whom offered much useful
advice, resulting in a restructuring of most of what I had written.
Later drafts were read by Archie and Maggie Caldwell, Janet Haseley,
Frances Long, Hank Searls, Doris Green Searls and others. The Caldwells
convinced me that I was on the right track, an opinion that found enough
echoes to encourage me to plunge ahead. Richard Smith read Chapter 1
and was especially helpful with suggestions about nisenan customs and
language.
My mother has had a greater share of responsibility in this book than
the rearing of its author. A few years ago she wrote a biography of
General Mariano Vallejo (Vallejo and the Four Flags; Comstock Bonanza Press, 1979) which I helped her produce and sell. Her success enix