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Title
UPTLA #31
Description
Donner Reed Trail
Creator
Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association
and Grantsville High School
and Grantsville High School
Date
1933
Identifier
UPTLA-033
Curatescape Story Item Type Metadata
Subtitle
Donner Reed Trail
Story
The ill-fated Donner-reed party, California immigrants, passed here about September 10, 1846 and continued northwesterly attempting to follow the Hastings Cutoff across the Great Salt Desert.
Feed and water were exhausted, thirty six oxen died or were lost, several wagons were cached or abandoned. Struggling on, they recuperated in the "Valley of Fifty Springs" but were later overwhelmed by early snows in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Thirty six of the eighty one persons died before rescue parties arrived.
Caches mentioned by Captain Howard Stansbury were located in 1933 by the Grantsville High School.
Factoid
Placed in 1933, damaged in 1935, plaque stolen in 1941, presumably replaced. Entire monument removed sometime before 1-80 construction in the 1970's.
Original location unknown although research suggests marker was located at crossing of I-80/Lincoln highway where the California Historic trail is known to have crossed. This trail crosses a mile or so south-west from the Grassy Mountain rest stop.
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