September 22 This day in Trail history – A composite journey along the California Trail – September 22, 1861 "in the early morning, we pushed on eleven miles to Rabbit Hole Springs, where the water was fair and there was some grass. Sunday night the teams and cattle drove all night and reached Hot Springs, [...]
Month: September 2021
3:16 – The Rest of the Story – Our Response 8: 1 Corinthians
A Bible Study exploring all the 3:16s in the Bible as they illuminate the Human ConditionGod’s Revelation of His PlanGod’s Fulfillment of His PlanOur Response (Current location of study) “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” – 1 Corinthians 3:16 I began writing this post over a month [...]
September California Trail Social Media Posts Week 3
September 15 This day in Trail history – A composite journey along the California Trail – September 15, 1849 "We reached Johnson's ranch just before night. It is an old establishment, constructed partly of logs and adobes and has been a famous cattle ranch for many years. It is now converted into a store and [...]
September California Trail Social Media Posts Week 2
September 8 This day in Trail history – A composite journey along the California Trail – September 8, 1849 "Without breakfast we pushed on until we came to Steep hollow (rightly named) where we took breakfast and looked round a little among the miners for we had reached the Diggings. We beheld for the first [...]
September California Trail Social Media Posts Week 1
This is the final month of my daily diary excerpts from a "virtual journey" along the California Trail, posted on social media for the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, Nevada. During September the portion of trail covered during this hypothetical journey is shown in the Google Earth image, starting near Winnemucca, Nevada and continuing [...]