It all started because, There wasn’t a much of land were I lived .So I started going west by trains and trails ,we got sick along the way some of us pass away ,But found land found land more than ever.Not to brag but I was a pioneer myself. an we found gold we called it the “Gold rush.Because in California in 1848 after all the gold was found by a close city called “San Francisco” .In 1857 were only 800 people living there,but ten years later the population had increased to about 50,000 people. As a pioneer we had to work hard.To get all that land it cost two dollars per acre . We worked and worked to clear the trees out and clear big rocks and little rocks .To add to that we had to build houses ,and dig holes to get water .With all that hard work, California became the Boomtown ,and there you have it folks that is my story, why I went west.