The Herb Poulson, Donner Party Trail Photograph Collection, 1972-1973

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Summary Description
Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 325
Creator: Poulson, Herb.
Title:Herb Poulson, Donner Party Trail Photograph Collection, 1972-1973
Quantity:4 fds.
Abstract: Photographs of sites along the route taken by the Donner-Reed party from Ft. Bridger over Hastings Cutoff to California. Taken by Herb Poulson in 1972 and 1973. Identifying captions included.

Topics:
Donner Party -- Photographs -- 1973.
Overland journeys -- 1846.
Trails -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs.
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Background

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Scope and Content

Photographs of sites along the route taken by the Donner-Reed party from Ft. Bridger over Hastings Cutoff to California. Taken by Herb Poulson in 1972 and 1973. Identifying captions included.
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Herb Poulson, Donner Party Trail Photograph Collection, 1972-1973, Utah State Historical Society.

Acquisition Information:

Gift of Herb Poulson.

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Processing Information:

Collection processed by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000

Collection cataloged by Richard Saunders, 1989 (RLIN ID: UTSX89-A1207).

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000.

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Container list

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Folder

Contents

Hastings and Donner Party photographs

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Photographed in 1973
1. Donner Hill & monument (Emigration Canyon)
2. Plaque--Camp Grant Monument
3. Trace of original pioneer road (Hastings Pass)
4. Aragonite Mine (Hastings Pass Canyon)
5. Pilot Peak
6. Location of note from Hastings advising of trouble in Weber Canyon
7. Mountain Dell Reservoir
8. Old building--Aragonite Mine
9. Site--Gamp Grant
10. Snow (east of Big Mountain summit)
11. Pilot Mountain from Pilot Spring
12. Pilot Springs (west edge of the Salt Flats)
13. Salt Flats and Silver Island
14. Pilot Peak
15. First water for the Donner Party after Pilot Springs (Flowery Lake)
16. Homesteader's cabin and coral (Flowery Lake)
17. South Fork of the Humboldt River--about 8 miles west of Elko, Nevada
18. Humboldt Sink
19. Boiling Springs (Forty Mile Desert)

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2

Photographed in 1972
1. Monument to first white women to cross the South Pass
2. Pacific Springs, Wyoming
3. Data board--Pacific Springs-South Pass
4. Portion of the Oregon Trail--5 miles west of Pacific Springs
5. Parting-of-the-Ways monument and Sublett Cut-off
6. Parting-of-the-Ways monument adjacent to Highway 28 (Wyoming)
7. Oregon Trail just west of Parting-of-the-Ways monument
8-9. Little Sandy Creek (Wyoming)
10. Monument (Fort Bridger, Wyoming)
11. Wooden sign (Fort Bridger, Wyoming)
12. Covered wagon in meadow (Fort Bridger, Wyoming)
13. Echo Canyon/Weber River junction
14. Weber River (Echo Canyon)
15. Weber Canyon/Interstate Highway 80 north near Devil's Slide
16. Devil's Slide (Weber Canyon, Utah)
17. Beehive Monument--Route 65 (Henefer, Utah)
18. Monument (Hogback Summit)
19. View east/northeast (Big Mountain Summit monument)
20. Plaque (Big Mountain)
21. View west/southwest (Big Mountain Summit monument)
22. This is the Place Monument
23. Black Rock (Great Salt Lake, Utah)
24. Cedar posts marking "20 Wells" (Grantsville, Utah)
25. Marshes (Skull Valley, Utah)
26. Sprinkler irrigation--Deseret Cattle Company Ranch (Iosepa, Utah)

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3

Photographed in 1972-1973
1. View east of summit of Hasting's Pass (Cedar Mountains)
2. View northwest from north of road (Hasting's Pass)
3. Northwest (from Hasting's Pass)
4. Pilot Peak
5. View from I-80 east of Wendover showing Silver Island (left) and Crater Island (right)
6. Crater Island
7. Pilot Springs
8. Pilot Peak
9. Flowery Lake
10. Ruby Mountains
11. Road--Overland Pass
12. Huntington Creek and Valley (northwest of Overland Pass)
13. South Fork (Humboldt River)
14. Scrub sage and grass on desert land (west side of Ruby Mountains)
15. Log cabin (Juggs, Nevada)
16. Palisade Canyon
17. Gravelley Ford (Humboldt River)
18-19. Graves (Gravelley Ford)
20. Gravelley Ford (Humboldt River)
21. Golconda Gap
22. Cosgrave area (west of Winnemucca, Nevada)

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4

Photographed in 1972-1973 (cont)
1. West end--Humboldt Sink
2. Truckee River
3. Truckee Meadows (Reno, Nevada)
4. Dog Valley (Verdi, Nevada)
5. Stampede Reservoir
6. Donner, George tree and camp site (Alder Creek)
7. Donner Lake
8. Donner Park Monument
9. Cabin site (Murphy Rock)
10. Graves cabin--approximately 300 yards east of Donner Park Monument
11. Bronze plaque--Graves cabin (Donner Park area) [2 copies]
12. "West Wall" and summit of Donner Pass (Donner Lake)
13. Donner Lake
14. Emigrant Gap
15. North fork of American river (Colfax, California)
16. Monument--Johnson's Crossing of the Bear River (Johnson's Ranch)
17. Fallen Oak (Johnson's Ranch)