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to the Colorado First Sight of the Sierra Nevada Winter at
Fort Tejon The Return Journeys-First Steamer on the
Colorado Last Entry in the Journal "We Have Tested the
Value of the Camel, Marked a New Road to the Pacific and
Travelled Four Thousand Miles" 211

CHAPTER XIII THE JOURNEY ALONG THE 35 PARALLEL
Beale s Official Report Railway Surveys from Fort Smith, Ar
kansas, to the Colorado Choteau s and the Valley of the
Canadian The Rio del Norte at Albuquerque Advantages
of this Route for Wagon or Railroads Extracts from Beale s
Journal Inscription Rock Breakfast of Wild Cat A Visit
to Zuni Advice to the Chief "A Merrie Jest of Ye White
Man and Ye Indian " Indian Rumors and a Treaty of Peace
Civil War and the Close of the Wagon Road Period
"Wanderer" Writes about it from Gum Springs to the Phila
delphia Press The Pacific Railroad as a Government Project
Builder .......... 230
Praise of Beale as Pioneer and Road
Santa Fe Traders
CHAPTER XIV GENERAL BEALE AS SURVEYOR-GENERAL
Lincoln Appoints Beale Surveyor-General of California and
Nevada Plans of the Secessionists Beale Persuades Lincoln
not to Enforce the Draft in California Weathering the Crisis
Beale s Letter to the President Volunteering for Service in
the Field His Views on the Cause and Probable Conse
quences of Civil War Published by the Philadelphia Press
"The Fate of the Commons of the World Depends Upon the
Issue of the Struggle" Beale s Letter to Secretary Chase
Favoring Acquisition of Lower California by United States
Chase s Reply Letters from the Mexican General Vega
Beale s Sympathies With the Liberal Though Fugitive Govern
ment across the Border Grant and Beale Contrive to Send
Muskets to Juarez President Diaz s Recognition in after
Years of Beale s Assistance in this the Hour of Need . . 256
CHAPTER XV LIFE ON THE TEJON RANCHO

Beale Resigns as Surveyor-General and Retires to Tejon Pur
chases more Land from Absentee Landlords
Description of
the Bakersfield Country when Kern County Was a Wilder-