Bryant, Edwin
pioneer, author, was born in 1805 in Massachusetts. Before 1846 he was for some time a journalist in Kentucky. In the summer of that year, chiefly with a view to traveling, he acted as leader of a party of emigrants from Missouri to California. While various parties had gone overland to California since 1841, the large numbers and the critical circumstances of this emigration gave it much historical importance. He was the author of What I Saw in California. He died in 1869 in Louisville, Ky.