This article first appeared in the Santa Clara Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter, April 2023 On Being a History Detective: My Research Experience on Donner Party Survivor/Rescuer, William H. Eddy Call it fate or destiny, five years ago I became an ardent...
To Stop an Avalanche place a bomb below it, and I’m not talking a metaphorical one, a real nasty bomb like you’d see in a Sam Peckinpah picture starring Steve McQueen. Aim at the target several loads of dynamite or train a Howitzer high to a leeward slab...