In a message dated 12/1/1999, Colin wrote: > I'm still trying to find out if there where arrival > lists for San Francisco passengers from 1850-1860. No one on this list has > answered even that little question. I'm fairly new to the list, but I have tackled passenger lists in San Francisco. Robert B. DICKSON emigrated to SF from Scotland via Hannibal, Missouri, in 1875. I discovered that in the SF papers of that time there'd be a section on ship arrivals and departures, and passenger lists for those ships. Some train passengers were also listed. I think, though, that it was just first- and second-class passengers who were listed, because it'd say something like "Mr X of Independence, Missouri, and his family, Miss Y from St. Louis, Mr and Mrs Z accompanied by Miss A of Boston, etc. etc." ending with "and [some number of] passengers in steerage." The number of passengers in steerage was generally fairly high; certainly the bulk of the passengers traveled that way. It's a strong likelihood that anyone traveling out West to make it rich *probably* was traveling in steerage and won't have been listed by name. Anyway, that's my take on it after months of fruitless research. BTW, although Robert Dickson was a late arrival (he was a lawyer by trade who pursued some mining interests peripherally ... Slide Creek in Trinity County, e.g.), I'm also searching someone who (and I'm recalling this from memory so it may be only 80% accurate) rode with a mule train in the interest of the government ca. 1850 in Northern California. No further info on that and haven't been able to trace his ancestry aside from his being Gorham Newberry BARNUM, born ca. 1826 in New York, who married Laurana MOORE in Missouri. He settled in Eureka and owned a saloon there in the late 1800s. I think he may have relocated to San Diego or Long Beach or someplace like that later on. [Note to Tim Purdy: Sure, I'd be interested in seeing A. L. Tunison's diaries posted!] Patricia