 In addition, he paid very low wages to his workers, and many of them hated him.However, in 1841, when the first American emigrant party, the Bartleson-Bidwell Party, came to California from Missouri, Marsh invited them to be his guests, and thus the California Trail terminated in Brentwood.After entertaining members of the Bartleson-Bidwell Party, as Marsh retired for the evening, he invited them to slaughter one of his steers for breakfast the next morning.