Angelina Snyder left Indiana, escaping the Civil War, in 1863.  She took her four daughters, their  husbands, her ex-husband (husband number two) and her third husband to California in a wagon train.   They settled in Solano county.

The hardships of walking half way across the continent, in the dust raised by numerous wagons,  did  not end at the Pacific Ocean.  Daughters died, grandchildren died.  Strong men broke down with the  grief of loss, temporarily abandonned their children, then moved what was left of their families to  Washington state where they met the Pattersons.

This is the story of 2 pioneering families.