Over the decades since August 16th, 1977, our culture has rendered him nearly flattened, completely one dimensional, neatened into a nice little pile of quaint references and one-liners.
Category: On the Road
We can’t sit still. That’s why we hit the shores and kept going west till we hit the Pacific and then turned around and did it all over again. We’re a mobile people, always on the move, looking for that next frontier. Read about some of those stories here.
Horror in the Sierra Nevadas: A First Hand Account of the Donner Party – Eliza Poor Houghton
A harrowing eye-witness account of the infamous Donner Party. “I learned many things which I could neither have understood nor remembered had they not made them plain.”
