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Ch. 2: Gold Fever

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Westport Landing (right) was a favorite starting point for the "companies" who came by river boats to take the California Trail. And many an emigrant camped at Weston (below), a Missouri vil­lage about opposite Fort Leaven­worth. One of the officers of the Mounted Rifle Regiment made this sketch in 1849 before he left the Fort for the long, unfortunate march of the regiment to Oregon.
J. Goldsborough Bruff, the able, if sen­tentious, Captain of the "Washington City and California Mining Association," showed his brass-buttoned splendor briefly at Weston before landing at St. Joe. His company went to work breaking mules and fitting-up at the camp shown below, two miles back of town at Black-snake Hill. Bruff noted in his diary that there had been much talk of cholera on the river.
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