. "Taking as much water, fodder, food, fuel, and other necessities as they could pack into their wagons, and gathering together as many of their own livestock as they could separate from the group???s communal pens, the Reed party fled Big Rock Candy Mountain and the horrors they had seen there.They arrived in California near Sutter???s Fort on January 17th, 1847, exhausted and terrified." . . . .