Cover title: Echoes of the past; an account of the first emigrant train to California, Fremont in the conquest of California, the discovery of gold, and early reminiscences. Half title: The first emigrant train to California; an echo from the past--scenes, incidents, and reminiscences of the first organized trip across the plains, and dealing with the early settlement of California. Pages 2-60 were first published in the Century illustrated monthly magazine for Nov. and Dec. 1890 and Feb. 1891; p. [73]-91 were first published serially in Out West magazine in 1904.