A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

for the California gold fields. In his party were Perry Richardson, his wife, Straud Richardson, his wife, brother, brother in law, nephew, Robert Woodiord , Beaty, and boys sixteen. Upon camping, they placed the wagons in acircle and guards were set out. On one occasion, in doing this, Indians and several squaws came like a stampede upon them. By offering them food, peace was soon made, until one of the boys, holding a gun, which he did not know was loaded, pointed fe to a squaw. The gun went off, killing the squaw instently. The doy was grabbed by the tn. a@ians, and punished in Indian fashion, against the will of the party. The party arrived at Hangstown after great suffering. Mrs. Richardson was offered a job at $200.00 per month, as women were scarce, but her husband said that he did not come to California for his wife to work, so the party went on. They soon arrived at Sacramento, pitched their tents where Seventh and J Streets now are. They struck out for Rose's Bar on Yuba River. He end his brother, Straud, conducted a store and hotel there. They brought gold dust and made money. In 1865 they bought the Oak Grove Ranch (Now known as the Sanford Place, near Timbuctoo.) John Hughes, in 1848, purchased one horse and an interest in a wagon built especially to cross the plains. Arriving at Sacramento, he drove the team from Sacramento to Nevada City, through Rough and Ready. He took sick at Rough and Ready, and on reouperating, he was walking in the mountains. While stooping to take a drink from a creek, he saw a bright metal in the creek bottom and picked up a gold nugget near Rough and Ready. After returning to Sacramento » he came back to Rough and Ready, and started mining at his find, which touched off the gold discovery here. He took out in 1849, $14,000.00. He returned east vie Panama, with the money, and then came back and bought a ranch in 1857, and married. He was murdered in 1857 on his renoh, by J. M. , John Royer -in 1849 he crossed the Plains to California and went mining, return~ ed east, came west again in 1852, and teamed and owned a saw mill near Indian Springs. His son, Thomas, at eighteen, took a band of horses from Smartville to South CarOlina. As there was a panic on there, he lost out, and returned to California broke, end then went teaming for the Excelsior Water Co., hauling goods to Marysville. A PIECE OF PAPER WAS FOUND The Magnetic Telegraph Company Passed here August 3lst, 1649 At Mer irae on Boys oH. pboun, Ed Mensfield, H.C. McClure John Putnam, Thos. Jones, J. V , and Jno. Banor. : , euehen, Masonic Lodge also played a helping role. All over the union during the gold rush, Masons set to work like so many mills running at their full capacity, grinding out Masons to meet the demand for human sympathy and brotherhood that they might require for muheard a sessevome on their journey. A er of itasons became prominent 1 California History. P one 1649 Partial experiences of wagon train Google 85 well organized and officers assembled. Sixty-four enigrants called on "Old Rough end Ready," Zachary Taylor, President of the United States. They were received in his blandest and frankest manner. Dead oxen, eight to twenty-one, wagons, supplies, graves, scattered along the long trail. Relics of dead and suffering souls. Scores of wagon trains passed, some in trouble, some needed policing at point of gun. Henry Walters in 1852, with his man on this trip. -He crossed the plains folks. He was a young They had a cow with them to supply milk on the way. They met up with some Indians who tried to induce father Walters to trade his boy, Ed, for Indian poinies. They wanted to make an Indian chief out of the boy. The Walter's, Minnie, Louis, Mary and Ed. (Ed passed away in 1950). A.Y.Brown -He drove stock from Missouri, over the plains. The going was hard through the Indian troublesome country. Jim Ennor -In crossing the plains, found scarcity of water. He secured a team and wagon and went back to sell water to those in need. On the way back, he came upon a woman walking and carrying a child, she was frail and suffering from thirst. Ennor took her back with him and met up with her husband, and was surprised to see a husky man that could not take it, and he was almost down and out. Ennor returned east to get married, and came back with his bride, around the Horn, and settled in the Rough and Ready District. Advancing wagon trains stuck notes on sticks, advising who and how many wagons were ahead and who was in charge. They also gave notice that they would travel slow through the, Indian country, to allow others to join up with them. Freeman -One woman and another man, with an ox and a horse pulling a buggy arrived at the deserted camp; they read the notes and rushed to join the 25 wagon train. Upon meeting up vith them they found the twenty-five wagon train scared of the Indians. The Captain of the wagon train called a meeting in order to bring up the morale of his company, and said to his group. “Here we are, twenty-five wagon strong, afraid of the Indians, end two men and a woman not afraid.* Telling Mr. Stewart of Rough and Ready of this instance, he said that his father was one of this group. Three thousand walked across the plains, some with their belongings in a wheelbarrow. In another instance was an emigrant with a wheelbarrow, accompanied by a milk cow. John Fippin, Sr. -in crossing the plains, met up with a tribe of Indians. Ee sew an Indian pointing an arrow at him. John raised his old muzzler loaded, and called to the young man with him that was ready to run off, said John, "Don't run, aim your gun so you will hold a bead on him, while I reload after I shoot." The Indian, ready to shoot, ran away. John was a blacksmith, and he brought across the plains, the famous blacksmith anvil that Lotta Crabtree danced upon at Rough and Ready, in the early days. J.P.Novay also came across the plains in 1850 and landed here. So did John S.

for the California gold fields. In his party were Perry Richardson, his wife, Straud Richardson, his wife, brother, brother in law, nephew, Robert Woodiord , Beaty, and boys sixteen. Upon camping, they placed the wagons in acircle and guards were set out. On one occasion, in doing this, Indians and several squaws came like a stampede upon them. By offering them food, peace was soon made, until one of the boys, holding a gun, which he did not know was loaded, pointed fe to a squaw. The gun went off, killing the squaw instently. The doy was grabbed by the tn. a@ians, and punished in Indian fashion, against the will of the party. The party arrived at Hangstown after great suffering. Mrs. Richardson was offered a job at $200.00 per month, as women were scarce, but her husband said that he did not come to California for his wife to work, so the party went on. They soon arrived at Sacramento, pitched their tents where Seventh and J Streets now are. They struck out for Rose's Bar on Yuba River. He end his brother, Straud, conducted a store and hotel there. They brought gold dust and made money. In 1865 they bought the Oak Grove Ranch (Now known as the Sanford Place, near Timbuctoo.) John Hughes, in 1848, purchased one horse and an interest in a wagon built especially to cross the plains. Arriving at Sacramento, he drove the team from Sacramento to Nevada City, through Rough and Ready. He took sick at Rough and Ready, and on reouperating, he was walking in the mountains. While stooping to take a drink from a creek, he saw a bright metal in the creek bottom and picked up a gold nugget near Rough and Ready. After returning to Sacramento » he came back to Rough and Ready, and started mining at his find, which touched off the gold discovery here. He took out in 1849, $14,000.00. He returned east vie Panama, with the money, and then came back and bought a ranch in 1857, and married.. He was murdered in 1857 on his renoh, by J. M. , John Royer -in 1849 he crossed the Plains to California and went mining, return~ ed east, came west again in 1852, and teamed and owned a saw mill near Indian Springs. His son, Thomas, at eighteen, took a band of horses from Smartville to South CarOlina. As there was a panic on there, he lost out, and returned to California broke, end then went teaming for the Excelsior Water Co., hauling goods to Marysville. A PIECE OF PAPER WAS FOUND The Magnetic Telegraph Company Passed here August 3lst, 1649 At Mer irae on Boys oH. pboun, Ed Mensfield, H.C. McClure John Putnam, Thos. Jones, J. V , and Jno. Banor. : , euehen, Masonic Lodge also played a helping role. All over the union during the gold rush, Masons set to work like so many mills running at their full capacity, grinding out Masons to meet the demand for human sympathy and brotherhood that they might require for muheard a sessevome on their journey. A er of itasons became prominent 1 California History. P one 1649 Partial experiences of wagon train Google 85 well organized and officers assembled. Sixty-four enigrants called on "Old Rough end Ready," Zachary Taylor, President of the United States. They were received in

his blandest and frankest manner. Dead oxen, eight to twenty-one, wagons, supplies, graves, scattered along the long trail. Relics of dead and suffering souls. Scores of wagon trains passed, some in trouble, some needed policing at point of gun. Henry Walters in 1852, with his man on this trip. -He crossed the plains folks. He was a young They had a cow with them to supply milk on the way. They met up with some Indians who tried to induce father Walters to trade his boy, Ed, for Indian poinies. They wanted to make an Indian chief out of the boy. The Walter's, Minnie, Louis, Mary and Ed. (Ed passed away in 1950). A.Y.Brown -He drove stock from Missouri, over the plains. The going was hard through the Indian troublesome country. Jim Ennor -In crossing the plains, found scarcity of water. He secured a team and wagon and went back to sell water to those in need. On the way back, he came upon a woman walking and carrying a child, she was frail and suffering from thirst. Ennor took her back with him and met up with her husband, and was surprised to see a husky man that could not take it, and he was almost down and out. Ennor returned east to get married, and came back with his bride, around the Horn, and settled in the Rough and Ready District. Advancing wagon trains stuck notes on sticks, advising who and how many wagons were ahead and who was in charge. They also gave notice that they would travel slow through the, Indian country, to allow others to join up with them. Freeman -One woman and another man, with an ox and a horse pulling a buggy arrived at the deserted camp; they read the notes and rushed to join the 25 wagon train. Upon meeting up vith them they found the twenty-five wagon train scared of the Indians. The Captain of the wagon train called a meeting in order to bring up the morale of his company, and said to his group. “Here we are, twenty-five wagon strong, afraid of the Indians, end two men and a woman not afraid.* Telling Mr. Stewart of Rough and Ready of this instance, he said that his father was one of this group. Three thousand walked across the plains, some with their belongings in a wheelbarrow. In another instance was an emigrant with a wheelbarrow, accompanied by a milk cow. John Fippin, Sr. -in crossing the plains, met up with a tribe of Indians. Ee sew an Indian pointing an arrow at him. John raised his old muzzler loaded, and called to the young man with him that was ready to run off, said John, "Don't run, aim your gun so you will hold a bead on him, while I reload after I shoot." The Indian, ready to shoot, ran away. John was a blacksmith, and he brought across the plains, the famous blacksmith anvil that Lotta Crabtree danced upon at Rough and Ready, in the early days. J.P.Novay also came across the plains in 1850 and landed here. So did John S.