Event class: moved, california, family, county, gold, near, texas, territory, missouri, colorado

Events with high posterior probability

William H. James	In 1857 James moved to Nebraska and staked a homestead claim in Dakota County.
Charles Leander Weed	In 1854, during the California Gold Rush, Weed moved to Sacramento, California, and was a camera operator in the daguerreotype portrait studio of George J. Watson.
James Rutherford (Australian pioneer)	Rutherford became a school-teacher and around 1852 decided to try his luck in the California Gold Rush, where his brother was.
Martha McBride Knight	Forced to flee Missouri following Governor Bogg's Extermination Order, the Knight family found refuge with some friends in Pike County, Missouri near the Mississippi River, where Martha gave birth to Martha Abigail Knight on February 9, 1839.
Henry Joseph Clarke	He practised law in Montreal before moving to California during the'' gold rush'' of 1858, and also lived in El Salvador for a period in the early 1860s.
Almon W. Babbitt	On August 31, 1856, Babbitt set out from Florence, in Nebraska Territory, for Salt Lake City.
James Graham Fair	There he received an extensive education in business before moving to California in 1850, where he prospected the Feather River country for gold embedded in quartz rather than pan for placer gold.
Wyatt Earp	thumb | left | Wyatt Earp's pistol, left behind in Juneau, Alaska while traveling to Nome In fall 1897, Earp and Josie once again joined in a mining boom when they headed for Nome, Alaska and the Alaska Gold Rush.
Pete Spence	Ferguson was wanted for robbery in Goliad Co., Texas in 1878 and left the area for the Arizona Territory near Bisbee and Tombstone where he began using the name of Peter M. Spencer.
John Dunning (writer)	In 1964 he left his parents' home and moved to Denver, Colorado, where, after a time working as a stable hand at a horse racing track, he got a job at The Denver Post.
John Hicks Adams	They settled in Georgetown, where John continued mining, when in 1853 they moved to a farm near Gilroy.
Joaquin Miller	About 1857, Miller supposedly married an Indian woman named Paquita (she may have been a Modoc Indian, and the relationship was probably that of a'' country wife'') and lived in the McCloud River area of northern California ; the couple had two children born in California or Oregon.
John P. Jones	In 1868, Jones moved to Gold Hill, Nevada where he was superintendent of the Crown Point silver mine which was part of the Comstock Lode.
Hercules L. Dousman	Dousman was very influential in bringing the railroad to Prairie du Chien by 1857, making the Milwaukee & Mississippi the first railroad to lay track all the way across Wisconsin.
Frank M. Canton	In 1897, Canton went to Alaska to follow the gold rush but instead became a Deputy U. S. Marshal.
Big Nose Kate	By 1874, Kate left St. Louis and moved to Dodge City, Kansas.
Pauline Cushman	Sources state that in 1879 she met Jere Fryer and moved to Casa Grande, Arizona Territory, where they married and operated a hotel and livery stable.
Charles Lightoller	Lightoller went to the Yukon in 1898, abandoning the sea, to prospect for gold in the Klondike Gold Rush.
Alexander Caldwell	He then moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1861 and engaged in the transportation of military supplies to the various posts on the plains.
Adonijah Welch	He spent about a year participating in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
Jesse James	In 1879, the James gang robbed two stores in far western Mississippi, at Washington in Adams County and Fayette in Jefferson County.
Levi Savage Jr.	On 10 July 1856 Levi was in Iowa City, Iowa and joined the ill-fated Willie handcart company that was planning to travel to Salt Lake City.
Mabel Barbee Lee	She married mining engineer Howard Shields Lee on June 15, 1908 in Denver, Colorado, and followed him to mining areas across the continent.
W. Tate Brady	In 1890, at the age of 20, Brady headed for Creek Nation, Indian Territory, to seek his fortune in the as-yet-unfounded Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Fred G. Hughes	He moved to the Washoe region of Utah Territory for a brief time in 1860.
Reuben Rickard	In 1875, the Rickard family emigrated to the United States as Reuben had been hired to manage the operations of the Richmond Mining Company in Eureka, Nevada.
Scott Leavitt	He subsequently moved to Oregon in 1901 and began homesteading in the Coast Range Mountains near Falls City.
Sandy Bowers	After coming west in 1856 and spending some time in Sacramento, he soon travelled to Gold Hill.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy	He traveled west and in 1827 settled in St. Louis, Missouri.
Robert Symington Baker	He came to California in 1849 and engaged in mining supplies business (as Cooke and Baker) in San Francisco.
Lawrence Denny Lindsley	In 1895, Lindsley went to work in the Esther Mine, near Gold Creek, Kittitas County and later worked on the first road along Lake Keechelus.
James Clarke (Iowa politician)	By 1842, the territorial capital had moved from Burlington to Iowa City, where Clarke assisted Governor Lucas with government and political business.
Cattle Annie	Born in Lawrence in Douglas County in eastern Kansas, Cattle Annie was captured climbing from a window at the age of thirteen in 1895 by U. S. Marshal Steve Burke.
Daniel S. Tuttle	He moved to the vast territory in 1867, establishing his residence in Salt Lake City.
John William Mackay	In 1859, he went to Virginia City, Nevada, and there, after losing all he had made in California, he formed a business partnership with fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair, James C. Flood, and William S. O'Brien.
Richard P. Bland	In 1865 he returned to Missouri, and set up a law practice, with his brother C. C. Bland, in the town of Rolla, in central Missouri.
Buckey O'Neill	In 1879, O'Neill left home, heading for Arizona Territory.
Edward Rosewater	Rosewater married Leah Colman on November 13, 1864 in Cleveland, Ohio, departing after the wedding for Omaha, Nebraska where he had secured a home for his new bride.
W. D. Twichell	In November 1885, Twichell migrated to West Texas, where his first assignment was to stake out Garden City, located some twenty-seven miles south of Big Spring.
Woody Guthrie	In May 1941, after a brief stay in Los Angeles, Guthrie moved the family north to Washington state on the promise of a job.
James Harden-Hickey	Destitute and depressed, he lived up to his ideology by living and dying as a strong proponent of suicide : James I, Prince of Trinidad, Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, took an overdose of morphine on February 9, 1898, in an El Paso, Texas hotel, when he could not sell his Mexican ranch that he acquired while living with the Flaglers.
Charles Wesley Piercy	Piercy settled in El Monte and in 1858 joined with others there in purchasing and reselling the lands of Mormons returning to Utah at the time of the Utah War.
Henry Walton (American painter)	In 1851 he joined the California Gold Rush, arriving in San Francisco on the steamer Oregon.
John William Mackay	In 1851, he went to California and worked in placer gold - mines in Sierra County.
Morgan Earp	In 1875, Morgan departed the Earp clan living in Wichita, Kansas, and became a deputy marshal under Charlie Bassett at Dodge City.
Paul Howley	In 1976 he relocated to Tennessee to help open and manage a store for a comic book retailer, then shortly afterward went to work for another comic book retailer in Ohio, traveling around the country to comic book conventions.
Jack Abernathy	In 1887 at age 11 he worked as a cowboy for the A-K-X Ranch and helped drive a large herd of cattle 500 miles to market at Englewood, Kansas.
Robert Edwin Bush	He also became interested in gold prospecting, and joined the gold rush to the Yilgarn after the discovery of gold there in 1887.
Robert Vaughn (Montana)	In September 1864, he and four other men headed east (encountering petrified wood in the Tom Miner Basin in what is now Park County), but found no gold deposits.
Pierson B. Reading	In 1848 Reading was among the first to visit James W. Marshall's gold discovery in Coloma, California -- and shortly after engaged extensively in prospecting for gold in Shasta County, at the head waters of the Trinity River.
Daniel S. Mitchell	In the spring of 1878, Mitchell and McGowan settled in Omaha where they established the Great Western Photographic Company.
I. B. Perrine	He moved to Idaho Territory in 1884 and established a farm and ranch operation in the Snake River Canyon near present-day Jerome.
Mary Katharine Brandegee	Her family, already peripatetic, moved to California during the Gold Rush of 1849, though Marshall chose to farm ; they settled in Folsom, California when Kate was 9.
Samuel W. Thornton	In 1874 Samuel and his family moved to Buffalo County, Nebraska, a sparsely settled frontier land where farming was difficult and time-consuming.
Edward Thomas Branch	After relocating to Jackson, Mississippi, he settled at Liberty, Texas in 1835 after having been hijacked on his way to Cuba and put ashore at Anahuac.
Truxtun Beale	The couple initially divided their time between Washington and California, but settled permanently at Decatur House following Beale's decision in 1912 to sell Tejon Ranch to a syndicate of investors headed by Harry Chandler and Moses Sherman.
Jack Powers	Powers fled town to avoid being lynched by vigilantes, and returned to Santa Barbara around 1849, where he found a job caring for the horses belonging to the influential De la Guerra family.
John P. Jones	In 1849 John P. Jones went to California to participate in the Gold rush.
Monjett Graham	Monjett Graham moved to San Francisco, California in October 1969, from Omaha, Nebraska.
S. Frederick Nixon	In the summer of 1905, he travelled to visit the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, but returned already ill.
Ephraim Morse	He lived there as a farmer and teacher until 1848, when news of the California Gold Rush took America by storm.
Andrew Jackson Hamilton	In order to join his older brother Morgan, Hamilton moved to Texas late in 1846 and opened his own law practice in La Grange, Texas.
Abraham Curry	In 1858, Curry traveled by stagecoach with Green, Musser, and Proctor, from California to the town of Genoa after news had spread that the western part of Utah Territory had been abandoned by Mormon settlers returning to Salt Lake City because of the Utah War.
John Swett	Swett arrived in California in 1853 to mine gold but quickly sought work as a teacher in San Francisco.
Thurmon Jones	In 1943 he became head coach at Electra, a small community near Wichita Falls, Texas.
J. Neely Johnson	In July 1849, Johnson left Iowa for the Gold Rush in California, where he briefly employed himself as a gold prospector, and later as a mule train driver.
Daniel Sutherland	When gold was discovered in the sands of Nome in 1900 he moved across the territory and became a prospector eventually becoming a co-owner of a mining company.
Agoston Haraszthy	Traveling with his entire family, he left Wisconsin in March 1849 and arrived in San Diego the following December.
William Greeneberry Russell	Through his Cherokee connections Russell heard about an 1849 discovery of gold along the South Platte River at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
Harry Love (lawman)	With the California Gold Rush in 1850 Love came to California to seek his fortune but was unsuccessful.
George B. Zimpelman	When the war came to an end he took up life back on the farm near Austin, and in 1866 he was elected sheriff, but he was quickly deposed by the military Reconstructionist authority.
Jean-Louis Berlandier	Berlandier made botanical collections around Laredo, Texas, in February 1828 and around San Antonio, Gonzales, and San Felipe in March, April, and May 1828.
Reed Erickson	In 1940 his family moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Erickson's father had transferred their lead smelting business.
Eric Jansson	Jansson arrived in New York in June 1846 and with the help of 400 of his followers who had survived the journey, founded the Bishop Hill Colony in Henry County, Illinois.
John Keeny	In 1886, Keeny operated a mercantile store in Newton in Harvey County in central Kansas.
George Washington Weidler	In about 1861, Weidler took a job as an agent for a company that ran stagecoach es between Carson City and Virginia City, Nevada.
Peter Hardeman Burnett	In 1843, Burnett became part of the exodus of Easterners moving Westward, moving his family to the Oregon Country (now modern-day Oregon) to take up farming in order to solve growing debts in Missouri, an agricultural endeavour that failed.
John D. Lee	A successful and resourceful farmer and rancher, in 1856, Lee became a US Indian Agent in the Iron County area, assigned to help Native Americans establish farm s.
William A. Paxton	Working first as foreman of a crew hired to supply railroad ties, and then as manager of a large railroad construction gang, Paxton contracted with the Omaha and Northwestern Railroad in 1869 to build lines north out of Omaha to Oakland, Nebraska.
Cameron E. Thom	He came to California in 1849 during the gold rush and after a few years of unsuccessful mining, he studied law in Sacramento.
George Edwin Taylor	Taylor claimed that he `` went West'' after he left La Crosse and before he appeared in Oskaloosa, Iowa in January 1891.
Emma Smith	Emma and her family soon followed and made a new home on the frontier in the Latter Day Saint settlement of Far West, Missouri, where Emma gave birth on June 2, 1838 to Alexander Hale Smith.
Heinrich Lienhard	In 1856 they moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, on the Mississippi, where Heinrich Lienhard was to live for 47 years as a well-to-do farmer and respected citizen.
John Currey	He came to California in 1849, eventually settling down in Benicia, Solano County, California where he established a successful law practice.
Samuel Colver	In 1850, he and his brother Hiram moved their families to Oregon via the Oregon Trail.
Louis Wigfall	Arriving in Texas in 1848, Wigfall joined William B. Ochiltree's law practice at Nacogdoches, Texas, then settled in Marshall, Texas.
Frederick Hinde Zimmerman	In 1883, at the age of nineteen, Zimmerman and his cousin Harry Hinde were invited by Zimmerman's uncle Edmund C. Hinde to move to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where Hinde lived following his return from the California Gold Rush.
James G. Blunt	In 1856 Blunt and his family relocated to Anderson County, Kansas, following his uncle who had moved there several years earlier.
Joseph Jackson (Australian politician)	His father was an alluvial gold prospector and Jackson worked in rural occupations until he founded a substantial retail business at the Peak Hill gold rush after 1889.
Sid McMath	After years of wrangling horses and bad-luck wildcatting in the Southwest Arkansas oil fields, Hal McMath moved his family by wagon to Hot Springs in June 1922.
William T. Price	In 1854, he moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and operated a stage line between La Crosse and Black River Falls.
Matthew Fielding Locke	He established a plantation about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of present-day Gilmer and founded the nearby town of LaFayette (which he named after his son, LaFayette C. Locke, who was born in 1850).
John Wayne Gacy	In 1966, Gacy's father-in-law offered him the opportunity to manage the three Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants he had purchased in Waterloo.
Pie Allen	From there he moved to Gila City to work in the placer fields before arriving in Tucson in 1858.
William A. Clark	After working in quartz mines in Colorado, in 1863, Clark made his way to Montana to find his fortune in the gold rush.
Robertson Howard	As a lawyer he handled western land claims, one of which led him to moving his family to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1881.
John Campbell Miles	After a brief visit to Melbourne in 1921, he decided to follow up the reminiscences of an elderly boundary rider who claimed to have seen gold on the Murranji Track, a cattle trail in the Northern Territory.
Jamie McLennan	A few weeks after the 1995 -- 96 NHL season had been completed, McLennan drove from Salt Lake City, Utah to Lethbridge, Alberta, on his way home to Edmonton.
John Morton Eshleman	A native of the Midwest, Eshleman was born in Villa Ridge, Illinois, but went west in 1896 to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Gary Owens	He made the move to California in 1959 working at KROY in Sacramento, and KEWB in Oakland, finally setting in Los Angeles.