The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-01
-From the National I.telligencer Of Nov. ~, is47

+From the National Iateligencer Of Nov. ~, ls4z
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Monterey and back, in March, is45.
This extraordinary ride of eight hundred miles in eight day.
night Monterey and nearly half San Luis oOp9
session in this city, and great desire being BY
ntsllgsnoer incident connected with the time. and .
first got from Jacob aerward: revised
publication show the horsemanshp riders The
Of the horse as one Of the @ o.
der to exhibit the capacity Of his race OF course this sas"
strictly o an account Of its performance.
dbreak the morning of the 2ad Of March that The
the part Of Upper 5 ou the
miles The way is over mountainous country much un
abited with other road than and dehss
orio fifteen miles in EXTENT made S By the s.Hs
le calm even then in many places through
the The towns Of Santa Barbara and San Luis o'RO
Each q take their
bride halter and them to the
track When wanted for changesay distances Of twenty
the sns ssS wh S though Sn and ,g
win the iasso sure mounaneer with
equal either horse foot and always lad OF courage and
known to the Caiornans The most usual gait swespiDs
a a n h. s ID s
other ountains and slept the ho.pitabe rancho Don
atSas Complained n this days ride ~as in
made tired by throwing the asso and using as whp 10 AceP
day they hundred and weny ve
miles passing formidable Barbara ana
upon the skeletons nifty horses part Of near douo
that number which persisted in the crossing OF that terrible
by the California battalion Chrsmsx day. s46 amidst ss
tempest and deluge Of and cold killing than that
Sierra Nevadathe day Of suffering FTemons
that ey have passed At the party stopP
Obispo reached, the Of and where an
affecting reception awaited Lieutenant Colonel Fremont in con-
which that history
record and he Detained till eleven O'clock In
uded taking q breakfast honor and waiting o
relief fresh horses be brought the surrounding
Here tbs nine horses from Los Angeles left and esn
others taken in their place. and Spanish added the party
managing the loose Proceeding the uua
till eight night and having made miles Don
who had spent the night before with his family and friends
Tor valley salinas (sat called
Bnena Psnfra the old Ind
For safety during their the party turned of the trace
through csnada into thick wood and laid horses
watch sleep when be easily yel
and halfway between midnight day when the sleeper
aroused by sfnmpdo the and the calls
boy The cause OF the alarm foundno Indians but
oearthn valley being thor and the place where
and hirtyhve oil his encountered some hundred sn
summer before killing thirteen the srosnd The
these bears well known and the bravest hunters no
advantage numbers On disccvennf
enemy Col felt for his pistols but Don Jesus desired hI
STILL that could bears ana mmeostey ~
looed at them Spanish they went on SssP Wen %
Are making the ho'pable supplies Of Bar
Obspo ocapd the u daybresk when the JonIney
Eighty miles and the afternoon brought the perry
Monterey. .l.L...- - L..
and ths two Col from Luis Obspo being
to Jesus he Don esus) desired to make
experiment Of them could do They brothers,
grass the othsr both Of the same color c'nn