CONTENTS 



Introduction. Frank Heywood Hodder . . 1 1 



Biographical Memoir. Maria R. Audubon . 21 

 Audubon's Western Journal : 1849-1850 



I. New York to Texas .... 41 



II. Disaster in the Valley of the Rio Grande 58 



III. Mexico from the Rio Grande to the 



Mountains . .... 84 



IV. Across the Mexican Mountains to Altar 106 

 V. Through Arizona to San Diego. . 146 



VI. California from San Diego to San Fran- 

 cisco ...... 174 



VII. A Tour of the Gold-fields . . .199 



Appendix: List of Members of the Original 



Company ....... 241 



Index . . . . . . . . 245 



