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The Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Photographs Index Card 555 A very likely camping place abouve an old Pack Trail on top of Summit Ridge abouve Donner Lake. (Some very old marked stumps) Index Card 556P no data 1/5/28 Index Card 557 Bones on the Trail of the Donner Tragedy. Index Card 558 Old bones. Index Card 559 On the trial of the Donner Tragedy. May 1927. Index Card 560 Flooded ground. Index Card 561 Old bones found at top of old Pioneer Trail to let of Cold Stream Trail on top of Summit near tree. June 1927. Index Card 562 Up to Summit from Donner Lake. May 1927. Index Card 563 On top of Summit above Donner Lake. Index Card 564 On way to Summit from Donner Lake where relief came. June 20, 1927. Index Card 565 Up Cold Stream. Index Card 566 On top of Summit Ridge near Donner Peak. June 18, 1927. Index Card 567 One of small lakes at top of summit. May 1927. Index Card 568 Showing where old Emigrant Trail went over summit, at left of Cold Stream Trail. May, 1927. Index Card 569 The Barrier of the Sierras. “Between the Plains and the Western Ocean.” May 1927. Index Card 570P neg ok Index Card 571 The Summit Barrier of the Sierras. Index Card 572 We found old anemanl bones at top of Summit Ridge to left of Cold Stream on an old Pack Trail. Index Card 573 Where party passed to Summit from Donner Lake. Index Card 574 A very Beautyfull Lake at the Summit on ridge, abouve Donner Lake that Emer. party experanced. “Beautyfull but Cruel” says Mary Graves Reed – Donner Party. Index Card 575 Up from Donner Lake where party crossed. Index Card 576 On the trail of the Donner Tragedy. On way up from Donner Lake. Index Card 577 Near Gammit Bridge to Donner Lake. Index Card 578 Donner Lake. Index Card 579 North shore of Donner Lake. Index Card 580 Donner Lake. 62
The Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Photographs May, 1927. Index Card 581 Donner Lake. May, 1927. Index Card 582 Donner Lake and path of Donner party to Summit. May, 1927. Index Card 583 Graves of George Donner’s party at Alder Creek Meadows. Index Card 584 Stumps, as they are today that were cut by the Donner party near the cabins of the Reeds – Keseberg & Murphys at Donner Creek Meadow. Index Card 585-599 all are blank index cards Index Card 600 Gravely Ford, Nev. An the Homboldt River. Index Card 601 Gravley Ford, Nev. The horses are crossing over the Ford that the emigrants & the R-D party crossed over in 1846. Index Card 602 Near an the Gravely Ford, an Homboldt River, Nev.(The cut in the river bank in the center is the old emigrant road. Index Card 603P neg ok Index Card 604 The rising ground, where we found the two graves of emigrants buried in 1845-1846. The first grave the one uncovered was of some emigrant who came with the party that passed thruo there in 1844, most likely the Stevens - Murphy party - of which, the California section, Walker and Barthson comanded. ? Schullenberger was with this party and ? the cabin near Donner Lake in 1844 and wintered there. Index Card 605 Grave of John Snyder, Donner party. Immigrant graves at Gravelly Ford on the Homboldt. Index Card 606 In beautiful Eacho Canyon, Utah were Reed – Donner Party came through, Fremont and Mormons and early 49ers. Index Card 607 Down the Weber River, Wasatch Mountains. Fremont 1825/1845? Hastings 1846. Index Card 608 A very bad place when Hastings put wagons over a precipice here, where wagons had to be lowered by immigrants in 1846, near Devils Gate. The cause why Hastings advised the Donner Party to find another route to the South by way of East Canyon. The ledge has since been blown out to make way for Highway and Railroad. Index Card 609 On way up East Canyon where Reed Donner party went. Index Card 610 The Emer. Trail marker at FL. Bridger Wyh. Where Emer. parted both sides of Salt Lake Route. Index Card 611 Salt Canyon, up from East Canyon where Mr. Reed and Mr. Pike had such a hard time on horseback hunting a way over Wasatch Mountains. Index Card 612 Pulpit Rock, so named by Brigham Young on way to Salt Lake Valley. Index Card 613 On the place where Hastings left note, advising Donner party to go by way of East Canyon farther south from here. I am pointing to Weber pass and route Reed – Donner party took. Index Card 614 Route taken through East Canyon by Reed – Donner party. Index Card 615 Near town of Hennifer, Utah, where Donner party found message informing party to go down another route farther south which they did. From here their first troubles began. 63
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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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Title Dates Descriptive Summary Gui
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For many years the archives at Sutt
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History and Biography James Frazier
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