First of all there is an overland wagon drawn by oxen, with pioneers accompanying it.

Secondly an Indian wigwam with hunters and Indians representing the year 1850.

In the third scene we have a buffalo hunt, the hunter holding a lasso in his hand, and then there is the dying buffalo.
Succeeding this we have a domestic scene--fruits and wheat--and a reaper in 1848.

We then note bronze-medallions of Sutter, James Lick, Fremont, Drake, the American Flag, and Serra.

Moreover on this central monument we have the names of Stockton, Castro, Vallejo, Marshall, Sloat, Larkin, Cabrillo-Portalo.