1847
Audubon's powers begin to weaken and rapidly fail.
1848
February 8.—John W. Audubon joins a California company organized by Colonel James Watson Webb, and starts for the gold fields, but his party meets disaster in the valley of the Rio Grande; he leads a remnant to their destination and returns in the following year.
1851
January 27.—Jean Jacques Fougère Audubon dies at "Minnie's Land," before completing his sixty-sixth year.
AUDUBON
THE
NATURALIST
Nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice....