Note 2 — Group III. GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND WHAT IT LED TO.

Nebraska. When I visited Nebraska (April, 1858), a few settlements were begun on the Nemaha, Saline, Big Blue, and Elkhorn, but all would not have made one good-sized town. The great tide of western travel set through Independence, Kansas City, Leavenworth and St. Joseph. In 1872 the London Times openly discouraged emigration to Nebraska, urging the Red River country instead. Western Nebraska is unfertile.