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The Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Photographs May, 1927. Index Card 436 Well marked trees. May 1927. Index Card 437 Our camp on the trail of the Donner party. May, 1927. Index Card 438 The old Pack Trail can be easely traces today where undouterly partys used on there way to and from between Donner Lake and Summit Valley. Index Card 439 Pointing out where a trail leads up and over Serrias. Abouve Cold Stream on Dry Hog Back Ridge. Index Card 440 Where Cold Stream Trail passed up over the dividing ridge. Index Card 441 “Snow Hog Back.” (abouve Cold Stream Index Card 442 On top of Hog Back Ridge. (to the right below wagon was found) Index Card 443 Old trees on high hill abouve Donner Lake. Index Card 444 Where Reed-Donner pasted up to Donner Lake Camp from below Trucke. Index Card 445 Old Pack anamals [sic] animals bones found near Summit coming into Summit Valley. Index Card 446 Gen. McGlachen stadning at edge of Donner Creek pointing out the old Cold Stream Trail. That Reed-Donner party came to pass over impossiable ??? to heavy, snow so, camped on ridge below. Index Card 447 Gen. McGlachen home abouve town of Trucke. The buildings below are his Offices. Index Card 448 This old tree stands today near the Donner Monument. And plainly shows the feable marks of axe in the hand os some member of the starving dieing Reed-Donner Party. Mr. Graves personily found the axe used at the foot of this tree many years after (Marked Tree) Index Card 449 On the Snow Hog Back Pointing out the Cold Stream Trail over to extream right where Trail passes over Serria Summit. (Snow Hog Back Ridge) 56
The Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Photographs Index Card 450 On the way up from Cold Stream. Index Card 451 On the top of Ridge abouve Cold Stream Where an old Pack Train passed up and over. Index Card 452 The site of Murphys Cabin. Old stump still standing that partys cut wood from. Index Card 453 This tree stood much higher up to a few years ago. This historical old timere still stand at edge of Highway up from Graves Cabin Tablet. It had been cut in deep snow. (Graves Cabin Tree Stump) Index Card 454 Undouterly an old cmaping place used by partys coming down from Donner Lake Cabins. Near Tasmerack Flat on there way to Bear Valley. (Goast Tree at camping place.) Index Card 455 Spot on Donner Creek west from Graves Cabin where parties had a big fire burning in the deep snow. Stump still standing on way up to Donner Monument from Graves Cabin. Index Card 456 On the high hills, Between Trucke and Alder Creek Where some of partys passed over. Index Card 457 Looking down from high ridge Barier to where a wagon was abandoned another high ridge is still abouve here. (Still people kick about cond. of there mordern Highways?) Index Card 458 Passing up abouve Cold Stream pointing out way up. The snow in open place was Evaporating into the air. OLD HCP Index Card 459 The large wooden cross, Burnt down by (Civilized Hoodlems) of today. Marking Burel palce of Emer. who died at Graves Cabin just below this rise. Index Card 460 A few stumps are all that remain snear where this Historic party had there shelters. With that wonderfull Monument of Insperation. Donner Monument. Index Card 461 On the high Hog Back Ridge to the left of Cold Stream pointing out two way that unknown partys passed over dividing ridge. Dry Hog Back Ridge. Index Card 462 Only at certain palces could wagons pass over. Why? Part of the dividing ridge of the Serrias. Index Card 463 Near Cold Stream Trail pointing up to Summit. Near old trails we found stumps that had been burnt off in deep snow. Index Card 464 Some of the country passed over abouve Alder Creek and where evidence of an old map was found. Index Card 465 The beautyfull Serrias are impossiable to pass over with deep snow. Yet those wounderfull heroic starving, dieing, hopless Reed- Donner Party got over? Index Card 466 A beautyfull sciene about Donner Lake in Spring. Where the Impossiable attempts were mad [sic] made to take over wagons in heavy snow. 57
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James and Margaret Reed, two surviv
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Introduction On April 15, 1846 the
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Donner material in the General File
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Donner Material in the Curators’
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Page 15 and 16: History and Biography James Frazier
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