William H. Winter (1819-1879) was an American explorer, miner / prospector, settler and diarist / co-author in the Western United States.
Two years later in 1843, he emigrated with friend Overton Johnson by covered wagon train on the westward Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest region of western North America.
[1] Winter and Johnson published an |account of their journey three years later in 1846 entitled Route across the Rocky Mountains with a Description of Oregon and California.
[2] After returning to Indiana in 1845, he remained there for four years until 1849, when he returned west to California as part of the mass migration in the famous California gold rush of 1848-1852 (the famous "'49ers").
He then returned back east to Indiana, and then journeyed again to California by way of Texas.