Western Lore

File — Box: 1, Folder: 3-4

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17: Eleanor Priscilla Eddy, perished in the Sierra Nevadas, February 7, 1847
18: William Henry Eddy, about 1856-57. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, 1817. Died in Petaluma, California December 24, 1859
19: The Murphy party in the Sierras, 1844
20: Virginia Reed's grave, Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose, California. (Donner Party)
21: Martin Murphy Sr.'s grave, Catholic Cemetery, Santa Clara, California. (Donner Party)
22: Reed family plot, Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose, California. (Donner Party)
23: Monument erected to the Donner Party on site of their starvation camp
24: Modern highway over Donner Pass, showing mist-shrouded Donner Lake below
25: Donner Pass as seen from Donner's camp near the lake
26: Fort Sutter, now in Sacramento, where four parties were organized to relieve the starving emigrants of 1846
27: Summit of Donner Pass.
28: Site of the Donner camp near Donner Lake, where many members of the emigrant train of 1846 died of starvation
29: On the western slope of Donner Pass showing the sort of country traversed by the Forlorn Hope during the winter of 1846
30: Naomi L. Pike Schinck, survivor of the Donner Party at age 87
31: Home of Polly Bemis on Salmon River (ca. 1939)
32: China Polly Bemis as she appeared in 1927
33: China Polly Bemis, 1931
34: Charles A. Bemis
35: Old house on the Parker homestead where Butch Cassidy grew up
36: Laura Bullion
37: Bod Lee
38: Ben Kilpatrick
39: William Cruzan
40: Etta Pace (Mrs. Kid Longabaugh)
41: "Wild Bunch" rendezvous cabin
42-45: Shooting of Patrick Coughlin
46: Patrick Coughlin and Fred George
47: "Big Nose George"
48: George Law, man from Idaho and ? Shirley
49: Zebulon Pike, 1887
50: First store in Randolph, built in 1870s
51: Virginia Price
52: Maximilian Parker's home in Circleville, Utah
53: Bill Lee, oldest son of John D. and Emma Lee
54: Baggage car in Union Pacific Train "Overland Limited" robbed at Wilcox, Wyoming, June 1, 1899, William Storey, conductor

Dates

circa 1847-1971

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