Today, in 1849, the year of the infamous "forty-niner" gold rush, a remarkable woman started her covered wagon trek from Iowa to California with her two year old daughter and husband. She wrote a description of her journey you can read here on Google books: Sarah Royce.
In Happy Heart, Brain, and Soul; April is the month for Believe. Sarah believed she was creating drastic change in her life for the better good. After many challenges and trepidations, she and her family began to prosper in the Sacramento Valley. Her son, Josiah Royce, born in Grass Valley, California, in the middle of a mining community, became a famous American Harvard philosopher due to his own pioneering spirit of thought. Instead of teaching traditional pragmatism, Royce introduced his belief of objective idealism which interprets the spiritual as a reality existing outside and independent of human consciousness.