Gillum Baley
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Gillum Baley was an American pioneer and judge. With Leonard Rose he led the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's
Baley circa 1885
19th-century depiction of wagon trains entering Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ruins of Fort Miller, California in 1936. Gillum Baley and his family lived in the fort's disused buildings from 1860 to 1861
Sallie Fox
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Sarah Estelle Fox Allen was a California pioneer and a member of the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's Wagon R
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…of a Pioneer Girl which was based in part on the diary of John Udell, a member of the Rose–Baley Party. The book is a semi-fictionalized biography of Sallie Fox who as a twelve-year-old child had also travelled with the Rose-Baley Party, surviving both the Mojave attack which killed her stepfather and the trek…
Sallie Fox in her wedding dress, 1873
Inscription Rock in New Mexico where Sallie Fox carved her name on 8 July 1858
Sallie Fox's mother Mary in her later years. She died in 1899 at the age of 75.
Edward O. Smith, who brought Sallie Fox and her family to California. As she had promised in 1858, she named her first son after him.