![]() ![]() Hastings was ahead scouting, and returned with directions for the Hoppe Party, including the diarist Heinrich Lienhard. The Donners followed the route taken by the Harlan-Young wagons, across the Altamont Divide into the Sulphur Creek drainage (Hilliard Flat), and continued southwesterly over a ridge to the Bear River near Mill Creek. Sond 2 this morning left Camp late on acct of an ox being missing Crossed over a high ridge or mountain with tolerable rough road and encamped on Bear river making 16 on a little Creek abut 4 miles from Bear River we ought to have turned to the right and reached Bear River in one mile Much better road Said to be Sat 1 Augt 1846-left Camp this morning early and passed through Sevral Valleys well watered with plenty of grass, and encamped at the head of Iron Spring Vally making 15 King went so far as to suggest that some entries may have been written after Reed arrived in California. Some of the entries appear to have been written after the events, which led both Stewart and King to question it. Virginia apparently did not use it as a source for her Century Magazine article in 1891. Apparently neither Virginia nor Patty revealed the diary to McGlashan. The existence of the diary was not known until the estate of Martha (Patty) Reed donated it to Sutter’s Fort Historical Museum in 1945. ![]() The Diary is controversial to some historians. The dated entries below are from the diary of Hiram Miller and James F. The Donner Party traveled from Bridger’s Fort (in what is now southwestern Wyoming) to the salt desert south and west of Salt Lake (near the present Utah-Nevada border). ![]()
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