Excerpt from Covntry Life in the City
In The latter part of 1839 a soldier of fortune, one time military officer under Charles X, bent on a serious mission, rested at the point where the Sacramento and American rivers meet. The Sacramento flowed peacefully through its wonderful valley; the plains were bunch grass carpeted. Herds of antelope, deer and elk fed here and there upon nutritious wild forage. Far away toward the east rose blue mountains, their tips glistening where the snow crested them. Northward towered a mighty snow-capped peak. Across the Sacramento the tules grew, tall and rank. All manner of wild fowl, teal and spoonbill, gray geese and honkers, brants and curlews, hovered over the tules or fed in the marsh lands. Beyond the tules was a vast stretch of land, and again a row of somber hills. Clumps of trees grew beside the river.
Here and there the vast expanse of prairie eastward was broken with park-like oaks. The land appeared of wondrous fertility and the traveler hesitated.
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