With snow drifts 20-feet deep, seven men approach Donner Lake and spy a cabin near the east end of the shore. As they approach, a frail woman appears and in a weak voice asks, “Are you men from ...
It was late fall in 1844 when a group of pioneers, horses, oxen and wagons arrived on the shore of a beautiful lake embedded below the wall of the Sierra Nevada. Snow had already accumulated on the ...
It was late fall in 1844 when a group of pioneers, horses, oxen and wagons arrived on the shore of a beautiful lake embedded below the wall of the Sierra Nevada. Snow had already accumulated on the ...
This winter marks 175 years since the Donner Party got stuck in the Sierra Nevada, forcing some now infamous, unthinkable life-or-death decisions. Monday morning, a team of four long-distance runners ...
Summer gives me the chance to go "off-road" in my reading -- to investigate books by lesser-known authors that have piqued my curiosity. Many times these detours turn into dead ends; but once in a ...
In the spring of 1846, the Donner Party began their trek from Missouri to California. Like other pioneer families from the East and Midwest who embraced the idea of Manifest Destiny and looked to ...
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