This is a map published in Neal Harlow's CALIFORNIA CONQUERED (1982) intending to show the routes of the Bear Flaggers in June 1846. We have added the highlighting of the route to Sonoma for ease of reference.
Peter G. Meyerhof indicates that he believes that the map is/may be inaccurate in at least two respects. First, the Bear Flaggers left for Sonoma from Fremont's camp which had been moved from the Butte's closer to New Helvetia, aka Sutter's Fort. Second, he has concluded that the map may be wrong by showing entrance into Sonoma from the north rather than the east, citing a comment of Harvey Porterfield that the men crossed Carnernos Creek, near Porterfield's ranch which was west of Carneros Creek, just north of the old bridge on what is now called the Old Sonoma Highway( just north of the Madonna Estate).
We have not studied the details of the Bear Flaggers' route to Sonoma in enough detail to be able to agree or disagree with either Harlow's map or Meyerhof's conclusions. It is important to be aware that there are differing opinions on some of the details of the route traveled and so not blindly accept one version or another.
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