Born in 1827 in Hillhead, Ochiltree John McTurk Gibson left home for America in his youth. He married and settled in Marengo, Iowa.
During the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, better known as the Colorado Gold Rush he left hiswife and children at home and set off with some friends on the Oregon-California trail in April 1857 to seek his fortune. Both he and his companion John Powell kept a diary and his great great grandson Weldon Hope has published both accounts here https://wjh.us/journal/copyrite.htm
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