Keywords: THOMPSON, RANDOLPH Gold Run, Donner Pass, Emigrant Gap, Los Angeles Thank you for responding, Bob. This may very well be the same W.C. RANDOLPH, but I don't think he was in the wagon train with my Thomas THOMPSON, not if RANDOLPH arrived in Los Angeles. My THOMPSON's arrived in Gold Run, which is in the Sierra Nevada along present day Interstate-80. I've always assumed they must have come over Donner Pass or Emigrant Gap. Thank you for taking the time to post, anyway. Diana At 12:46 PM 10/6/98 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >Hi Diana, > I think I have one of the guys you mention below: W. C. RANDOLPH. But it >may take some doing to get his account:-). Editor Dale Morgan in "The Overland >Diary of James A PRITCHARD from KY to CA in 1849" lists various known diarists >across South Pass in 1849. Randolph is NOT one of them. But Dale Morgan does >in Note 1 say that: > " 1. "The Ithaca Company reached California by a remarkable route, taking >the Santa Fe Trail to Pueblo....;thence going via the Cache la Poudre[my old >trout fishing stream:-)], Laramie Plains, Browns Hole, and Fort Uintah to Utah >Valley, from which they took the Southern road to Los Angeles. See Charles V. >STUART to H.H, BANCROFT, August 4, 1872, in Bancroft Library Mss.(C-E 65, >No.30). STUART gives the names of many of his fellow travelers..... FOR OTHER >accounts of travel by this route, see the dictations in the Bancroft >Library.......W.C.RANDOLPH (C-D 143)......" > Maybe two W.C. Randolphs, but this is sure worth a shot.You gotta talk to >someone else about getting stuff from Bancroft Liberry though. > Please let me know how this comes out - also, it I can further help. >Have a nice day, >Bob >