California Road

[1] The California Road followed the route laid out by Captain Randolph B. Marcy escorting gold seekers during the spring of 1849.

Marcy established Camp Arbuckle on the southern boundary of the Canadian River with close proximity to the 100th meridian west.

"Another road leaves Fort Smith and runs up the south side of the Canadian River to Santa Fé and Albuquerque in New Mexico.

This route is set down upon most of the maps of the present day as having been discovered and explored by various persons, but my own name seems to have been carefully excluded from the list.

I shall merely remark that I had the command and entire direction of an expedition which in 1849 discovered, explored, located, and marked out this identical wagon road from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fé, New Mexico, and that this road, for the greater portion of the distance, is the same that has been since recommended for a Pacific railway.