Letter from James Mason Hutchings, February 15, 1850
written by James Mason Hutchings, 1820-1902 (1850); in Seeking the Elephant: James Mason Hutching's Journal of His overland Trek to California, Including His Voyage to America, in 1848 and Letters From the Mother Lode (Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark, 1980), 188-189