The Boston Globe, July 20th, 2004
THE DISCOVERY last week of what is believed to be definitive evidence of a Donner Party campsite resonates in a way few other discoveries can. The cooking hearth and bone fragments found at Nevada's Alder Creek Camp in the Truckee Ranger District of the Tahoe National Forest evoke no Flintstone fantasies or textbook images of a prehistoric people clustered around a long-dead fire. This find is a scant 158 years old and sends a shiver up the modern-day spine, for the remains are likely to hold the truth of one of the darkest tales of this country's migration West. It was October 1846 when Georg...
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