On the Road to California

DESCRIPTION: "The Mormons, led by Colonel Cooke, while passing down St. Pedro's brook" are "On the road to California, on that hard and tedious journey." As they try to make their mules pull, bulls attack. When the battle is over, four mules and twelve bulls are dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1947 (Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle)
KEYWORDS: soldier travel animal injury | bulls mules
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1846 - Formation of the Mormon Battalion
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle, pp. 319-320, "On the Road to California" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8594
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Mormon Battalion Song (I)" (subject) and notes and references there
NOTES [38 words]: This is obviously a story of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War. The fight with bulls at the San Pedro was real, and was the only "combat" the Battalion saw. For background, see the notes to "Mormon Battalion Song (I)." - RBW
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File: FSSS319

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