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 [...]
Category: U.S. History
Women’s History on the California Trail
I wrote the following entries for March Facebook posts for the California Trail Interpretive Center. The Frontier Friday posts for March (Women's History Month) will include diary accounts from women pioneers as they traveled through Elko Valley and Carlin Canyon. Harriet Sherrill Ward, her husband William, 17-year old daughter Frances, and 11-year old Willie left [...]
Sandy Ascent in Osino, NV
One of my recent endeavors for the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, NV was to begin working on a series of history-themed videos. My first project was in regard to one of the T-rail Markers placed by Trails West, Inc. Trails West has placed close to 700 of these markers across the western U.S. [...]
Joseph E. Ware’s Emigrants’ Guide
For the month of January I put together four Facebook posts for the California Trail Interpretive Center related to Joseph E. Ware. I thought I'd put them here in my blog for those who might be interested. There were several guidebooks published in the late 1840s to provide advice to emigrants traveling to California. One [...]
Job Update
I don't have any job changes to update you on, but I will update the status of my current job. I'm still working as an interpretive park ranger for the Bureau of Land Management at the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, Nevada. When I began work on September 30, 2019, this temporary/seasonal job was [...]
