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The Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Photographs Index Card 467 Nature, taking care of the future, New Trees, replacing old, near Donner Lake abouve Cold Stream. Index Card 468 Taken from high hill abouve Sonner Lake, showing the beautyfull diveding ridge of the summit. Impassable for wagons with heavy snow. (Spring) Index Card 469 On top of high hill to left of Donner Lake. This place was the sciene of an old camp in deep snow. (Spring) Index Card 470 Passing up Cold Stream Trail. Index Card 471 In the high Serrias abouve Donner Lake. Index Card 472 Passing over Serria Summit into Summit Valley. Part of Horse Show Bend. Index Card 473 On an old Emer. trail Between Donner Lake and Alder Creek. Index Card 474 Where the old Emer. Trail led up Cold Stream. (Spring) Index Card 475 A taberlet marks where Graves Cabin stood and some of family lay buried, near Donner Creek. Index Card 476 The country where partys came up and fown in deep snow on foot getting lost, Donner Lake and Bear Valley. A tree that was burned of [sic] off in deep snow. Index Card 477 Van Vorden Lake, Summit Valley. Index Card 478 Gen. McGlashen pointing out Cold Stream Trail. Index Card 479 Where old Emer. trail led Passing up Cold Stream. “Spring” Index Card 480 Van Vorden Lake, in early in Spring thawing ice. Horu warm spring winds affect ice on this pretty lake. Index Card 481 Warm winds of Spring at Van Vorden Lake, Summit Valley. Index Card 482 The road taken by partys around high hills between Alder Creek and Donner Lake. (back of Trucke) Index Card 483 Capt. Davis pointing out an old pack trail passing over to Donner Lake in high hills abouve Alder Creek. Index Card 484 A Mt. known as red mt opp Cisco. This Mt should be named after that Heroic Stanton who gave his life near here and saved many of the Reed-Donner P. Stanton Mountin.) Index Card 485 Where Gaves Cabin stood near Donner Creek. (Standing opp. Spot) Index Card 486 How we found the trail passing up Cold Stream, “Spring” Index Card 487 The trail up from Alder Creek Meadow passing over to Donner Lake. Index Card 488 Between Graves Cabin and Donner Monument. Donner Creek (old stumps that party cut still standing) Index Card 489 Some of country passed over in vicinity of Donner Lake, “Spring” Index Card 490 Lake Van Vorden, Summit Valley, Frozen over in the Spring. 58
The Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Photographs Index Card 491 Showing how snow bridges are formed from water melting tunnel below. Steping, falling through these on a larger scale, was some of the experances [sic] experiences of those starving, dieing helpless women and children of Reed-Donner Party. Index Card 492 In the vicinity of Donner Lake. Index Card 493 One of the many possiable camping places of partys in vicinty of Donner Lake. Index Card 494 An old camping place in evidence along partys trail between Alder Creek and Donner Lake. Index Card 495 Cross, The site of Graves Cabin, Donner Creek, Cross on ground, the Mounment can be seen in distance to left. Index Card 496 Goast Stump, at an old camping place of partys coming up and down, Between Bear Valley and Donner Cabins. Index Card 497 On the old Emer. trails near Cold Stream, “Spring” Index Card 498 Between Alder Creek Meadows and Donner Lake. Index Card 499 Train Sheds, abouve Van Vorden Lake, Summit Vally. “Spring” Index Card 500 The kind of Country over hills between Alder Creek and Donner Lake. Where that heroic little lady Mrs. Geo. Donner travelled through deep snow alone, disheartened, starving, cold, dieing, hopeless, without hope. (“but doing her duty to the last”) Index Card 501 A very likely place, that some of partys camped abouve Alder Creek. Index Card 502 Top of highes hill between Donner Lake and Alder Creek. Index Card 503 A possiable camping place of partys, passing over these hills between Alder Creek and Donner Lake. Index Card 504 On an old pack trail, passing down below Summit Valley. Country partys passed through when this ground was covered with deep snow. Index Card 505 The old Emer. trail passing up, below Donner Lake, from Trucke River. Index Card 506 One of the many places, where those poor Emer. could have lost there lives. (Fire would fall through snow into a stream of running water leaving, women and children hopeless, alone, McGlashen) Index Card 507 Well marked old trees, that witnessed that terriable tradgerty [sic] tradgey of Murphys Shelter. Tablit can be seen on large rock where shleter was constructed. These trees bear marks today. Index Card 508 This, red mountain opp. Cisca, is the possiable place that relief party found the remains of that wounderful, hero Stanton. Should be given the name Mt. Stanton. Index Card 509 Part of the Summit, abouve Summit Valley. Index Card 510 Red Mt. opp. Cisca, near where Stanton remains are today undouterly. This Mt. should be named after that wounderfull man, Mt. Stanton. Index Card 511 Red Mt. 59
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James and Margaret Reed, two surviv
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Introduction On April 15, 1846 the
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may actually be from multiple sourc
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Donner material in the General File
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Donner Material in the Curators’
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Title Dates Descriptive Summary Gui
Page 13 and 14: For many years the archives at Sutt
Page 15 and 16: History and Biography James Frazier
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Page 27 and 28: Membership log for James F. Reed in
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Page 33 and 34: Guide to The Charles E. Davis Overl
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