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Once out of Death Valley the route lay along the eastern slope of the Sierras, past Walker's Pass, through Red Rock Cafion, across the Mojave, through Soledad Canon, and on to San Fernando. The Salt Lake Trail near Mountain Meadows was left on November 4, 1849. The survivors reached the plenty and safety of the California settlements March 7, 1850. As for the Jayhawkers and the few other members of the train who had separated from the Bennett-Manly party, their story is also one of tragedy and ...suffering. Small groups became detached from the main company and sought to make their own way across the valley. One of these parties, consisting of eleven members, remained 242 A HISTORY OP CALIFORNIA unheard of for many years. Two of its number were after- wards found working in the gold mines of Northern Cali- fornia; and in 1856 a prospecting expedition in Death Valley came upon an abandoned camp around which were the skeletons of nine men. In addition to these victims, at least two more of the Jayhawkers died in the valley, and one succumbed while crossing the Mojave desert.
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