Winterkill, 1846
The tragic journey of the Donner PartyThomas FroncekDecember 1976To the brothers George and Jacob Donner the way to California seemed clear and simple. Both in their sixties, solid and well-to-do...
View ArticleThe Farther Continent Of James Clyman
“Surveyor, mountain man, soldier, businessman, wanderer, captain of emigrants, farmer…he was himself the westward-moving frontier.”Richard RhodesDecember 1978In medias res: Fort Laramie on the...
View Article“Never Take No Cutoffs“—on the Oregon Trail
The first caravans lumbered across two thousand miles of dangerous, inhospitable wilderness in 1843, the year of the Great Migration. To a surprising degree it’s still possible to follow something very...
View ArticleThe Smart Ones Got Through
It was tough going, but the road over the Sierras could be used by men who understood how to travelGeorge R. StewartJune 1955The difference between “an historical event” and “a dramatic event” is well...
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