Here are the Trail history posts that I wrote for April for the California Trail Interpretive Center. For Frontier Fridays in April we're looking at preparations emigrants made to make the journey to California. Then beginning May 1 we'll be posting every day through September 30, following a "virtual road trip" along the Trail. April [...]
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Social Media Posts for March, 2022
The social media posts I wrote for the California Trail Interpretive Center for March were in honor of Women's History month. I chose simply to relate the experiences for four women as they passed through the Elko, Nevada region during their emigration to California in the mid-1800's. I traced their progress from near present-day Wells, [...]
January Social Media Posts
Here are the history-related posts that I put together for the California Trail Interpretive Center for the month of January. For Frontier Fridays in January, we'll take a look at some history of the Applegate Trail. The Applegate Trail begins about 35 miles southwest of Winnemucca, Nevada, travels through the Black Rock Desert into Northern [...]
December Social Media Posts
Here are the Social Media (Facebook) posts I wrote for December for the California Trail Interpretive Center. December 3 Since emigrants generally didn’t travel during the winter months, for December Frontier Fridays, we've selected stories from California Trail emigrants about their experiences during their first December after arriving in California. Edwin Bryant wrote a book [...]
Waterways as Highways on the California Trail
I wrote a series of social media posts regarding waterways along the California Trail and thought I'd share them here as well. Rivers were the highways across the west. As roads were being developed for the western pioneers it made sense to follow the waterways because of availability of water and grass, and as a [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 