Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in May 1891, Truckee was abuzz with treasure fever. While on a fishing excursion near Donner Lake, Edward Reynolds uncovered ...

In May 1846, the nine covered wagons made the slow journey from Springfield, Illinois to Independence, Missouri. The Donner Party would purchase provisions here for their long, arduous journey to ...

Five and a half Big Macs a day would have saved Sarah Graves from the horrors of the Donner Party disaster of 1846. It may seem irreverent for Redmond author Daniel James Brown to mention two all-beef ...

One hundred and sixty years ago, 81 people drove their wagons up the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada hoping to reach California before winter. Months later, only half of them made it. On Oct. 7 and ...

The wife of George Donner — who led the infamous disaster pioneer trip of 1847 — Tamsen Eustis was a Massachusetts ...

Sarah Murphy Foster sat by a campfire in the early winter of 1847, grieving the death of her brother, Lemuel. "She looked up," the historian Michael Wallis writes, "and noticed some of the emigrants ...

On Jan. 17, 1847 Wm. Eddy, supported by two Native Americans, knocked on the door of a small cabin at Johnson’s Ranch (near today’s Wheatland). Seventeen-year old Harriet Ritchie opened the door and ...

Growing up in Northern California, it is impossible not to hear about the Donner Party, the group of 87 pioneers who tried to cross the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846. Unfortunately, ...

Last year, I won the lottery. After 36 years of writing about Tamsen Donner and the Donner Party, I sold two books on her: a memoir, “Searching for Tamsen Donner,” and a novel, “Impatient With Desire.

In May 1846, the nine covered wagons made the slow journey from Springfield, Illinois to Independence, Missouri. The Donner Party would purchase provisions here for their long, arduous journey to ...