RENO, Nev. — It's ironic so many American success stories happened at a spot named for one of history's iconic failures. But that's how it is with the Donner Pass near Truckee, Calif. The first wagon ...

It was late fall in 1844 when a group of pioneers, horses, oxen and wagons arrived on the shore of a beautiful lake embedded below the wall of the Sierra Nevada. Snow had already accumulated on the ...

They were following the journey of the Stephens, Townsend, Murphy Party who left here in 1844. Because of development and ...

History Expeditions members travel horseback to reenact the Stephens, Townsend, Murphy 1844 journey across the Sierra ...