Donner Party: Burried Gold

[ISmellGold]

Pretty much everybody from Northern California has heard of "the Donner Party" . Arrived in California from a Wagon Train in 1846-1847, that got stuck in the mountains . I have reason to believe the "official story" may not be as quite as accurate as the "story" goes.
Could there be lost diggings burried around Truckee California?
The Official Story According to Wikpedia

Donner Party - Wikipedia

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[ISmellGold]

If the Donner Parrty account is not accurate and there were Natives involved? Interesting.
In 1846, the main part of the gold rush hadden't even begun yet. The easy stuff was probably in the rivers. Where there was Quartz there was gold. A lot of quartz in the spawning grounds, alot of fish too. Where there were fish there was Indians. Some event must of occcured at the river that sparked a massacre, because I am not buying the whole canibal story. Too much game in that area to have people eating eachother.

 

[ISmellGold]

Looks like there has been an excavation of one of the sites. If the "story" of the Donner Party is so cut and dry why would Archies be digging?

 

[ISmellGold]

Would be willing to bet some of that party burried some of their gold before they got wasted by the indians.
I think I am going to start in this area, right here.

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[DizzyDigger]

Some event must of occurred at the river that sparked a massacre, because I am not buying the whole cannibal story. Too much game in that area to have people eating each other.

ISG, chase your theory, but as I said before, the Donner Party is one of the most intimately investigated and reported events of the time.

I used to live in Truckee, and have spent considerable time visiting the Donner Party memorial. I have walked where they walked, and have seen the remaining evidence.

Too much game? What game? Deer? You think they're out walking around in the 30' deep snow drifts? Not to mention that it's seriously rugged country. No roads or trails to speak of.

Take some time and go visit the Donner Party Museum..walk where they walked, and imagine trying to survive as they did.

IF (and a big IF) they cached away any gold, it would be some distance East of Truckee, as they had lost their oxen and most all their supplies by the time they reached Donner Pass.

 

[ISmellGold]

ISG, chase your theory, but as I said before, the Donner Party is one of the most intimately investigated and reported events of the time.

I used to live in Truckee, and have spent considerable time visiting the Donner Party memorial. I have walked where they walked, and have seen the remaining evidence.

Too much game? What game? Deer? You think they're out walking around in the 30' deep snow drifts? Not to mention that it's seriously rugged country. No roads or trails to speak of.

Take some time and go visit the Donner Party Museum..walk where they walked, and imagine trying to survive as they did.

IF (and a big IF) they cached away any gold, it would be some distance East of Truckee, as they had lost their oxen and most all their supplies by the time they reached Donner Pass.

Meh, something was up, What are Archiees doing out there? Why would the "reported camp" be so far away from the river? There is more to the story than "Historians" are letting on. Probably sometime after the event they wiped the Indians out in that area? You never hear much about California Indigenous genocide. They don't talk about how the Europeans wiped the floor with Califonia indigenous in the old days.
That spot down by the river looks like a spot that needs some investigating. Indian Village?
Truckee Elevation of 6000 feet is high. but by no means unsurvivable.
I still say something happened that was swept under the rug.
and if there is some old timers burried hoard there, I am going to find it.

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[ISmellGold]

I don't care what anybody says I'm going to get me some of those Pre49er Donner Party River Nuggets.

 

[DizzyDigger]

I don't care what anybody says I'm going to get me some of those Pre49er Donner Party River Nuggets.

Donner Pass is over 7000', but nuthin' would make me happier than to be proven wrong in this case. Just sharing what I know to be true, but if you believe it's there, go get it......and I hope you get rich .....

FWIW, a pass just East of me on Hwy 20 is Washington Pass, marked at 5476'. The weather is so bad up there in winter that they can't keep it plowed, so they just close the road for the entire winter, every year. I just recently re-opened, in fact.

 

[ISmellGold]

Donner Pass is over 7000', but nuthin' would make me happier than to be proven wrong in this case. Just sharing what I know to be true, but if you believe it's there, go get it......and I hope you get rich .....

FWIW, a pass just East of me on Hwy 20 is Washington Pass, marked at 5476'. The weather is so bad up there in winter that they can't keep it plowed, so they just close the road for the entire winter, every year. I just recently re-opened, in fact.

Just going by there camp as stated by the archies.
I am going to get that Donner Party River Gold.
And I know just where to look

 

[ISmellGold]

Interesting reported camp site

Truckee campground

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Looks like alot of old mines in the area.
Answer me this ? If the Donner Party was coming in cross country from the East, how did they end up camping so far to the North?
They would of kept following the Truckee River out of the mountains.
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If you really start looking at it, the "official story" makes less and less sense. A portion of the group must gotten massacred by the indians. In 1846 those hills would of been crawling with them.

They probably followed Big Truckee all the way down river, possibly finding both gold and Indians.

 

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[ISmellGold]

To me it looks like someone was making an asault on the upper Truckee River in 1846.

Staging looks lke it took place from the Breen and Graves-Reed Cabin, My guess is the "Donner Party" was probably just a cover for a European invasion force up the Truckee river to gain access to the river for gold operations.
my guess is thier probably was an Indian Village right here.

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Who knows just speculating,
Wherever they were the probably were wiped out by 51.