We get a picture where they are coming back to camp with arms full of venison and rabbit.

You have to remember, we’re talking about 1861 or 1862. Abraham Lincoln was president. Local potters had to make these items from clay found in the area. We have some pieces with the fingerprints of...

He was 16, a French immigrant, nobody knew who he was ? he was an orphan. He was nobody, and then all of the sudden because he’s a survivor and cannibalism was said to have...

If we can find a cornerstone, we would know the exact location of the home.

They didn’t survive by eating each other; they survived by being resourceful.

The Donner Party’s experience was bad, but it wasn’t as bad as everybody’s been told.

There was a lot of fill on top but the magnetometer really pointed out anomalies. We found a pipe that was probably to the well pump and then we found a sill log on which...