Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in May 1891, Truckee was abuzz with treasure fever. While on a fishing excursion near Donner Lake, Edward Reynolds uncovered ...

The wife of George Donner — who led the infamous disaster pioneer trip of 1847 — Tamsen Eustis was a Massachusetts ...

In 1846, at Green River, Wyoming, Capt. Charles Imus of Santa Cruz was being lectured on why he was a fool not to take the new Hastings Cutoff. This shortcut would save 350 to 400 miles in greater ...

On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive during a Sierra Nevada snowstorm. The information below originally appeared ...