Donner Pass

In the two decades of the 1840’s and 1850’s, the California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the state’s gold fields and rich farmlands. It was the greatest mass migration in American history. The Oregan trail ran a few hundred miles north after it seperated from the California Trail. I will be travelling this route in reverse from SF to Sacremento and then up through the Donner Pass and to Truckee. Once clear of the Sierra Nevada Mountains the train heads for Salt Lake City. The hardships and deprivations these travellers endured can’t be overstated. The Donner Pass was notable for the Donner-Reed wagon train that was forced to over winter there, TL:DR: 87 people were trapped, 48 survived, Cannibalism was suspected.