Micah Pedler and his brother rode horses from the Platte River in Wisconsin to California in 1849. Micah Pedler, my great,great grandfather was born in Cornwall, England and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 7.
The two brother took a ship down to the Isthmus of Panama and walked across and took a boat up to the Platte River. Gathered their familes and came back to California in a wagon train.