THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL Interpretive CENTER

“I suppose,“ said Meek, that it comes from circus talk, like when you went to the circus folks’ll ask: ‘Well did you see the Elephant?’-Meaning in general, did you go where you set out for? Did you see what you went to see? Did you see the thing you started on through to the end?” As applied to our case it means undergoing the hardships and privations of the California trip, and getting there...
  Forty Niners,
  The Chronicles of the California Trail