This article first appeared in the Santa Clara Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter, April 2023 On Being a History Detective: My Research Experience on Donner Party Survivor/Rescuer, Wi...
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To Stop an Avalanche place a bomb below it, and I’m not talking a metaphorical one, a real nasty bomb like you’d see in a Sam Peckinpah picture starring Steve McQueen. Aim at the target se...
William H. Eddy, survivor and chief rescuer of the ill-fated Donner Party (1846-1847), traveled far in life as well as in death—a feat few experienced or even contemplated in antebellum America...
Winner: Honorable Mention in the 2020 Carolina Woman Magazine Writing Contest After one kid brushes her teeth, tucks in by 9:10 p.m., I rush to clean four dishes before my tax accountant husband ...
While her husband, William “Will” Eddy (1816-1859) chases a 900-pound grizzly bear, puffs his pipe, fells trees for lake lodging, tells very tall and ribald tales, shoots errant game, or make...
William H. Eddy (1816-1859) was a carriage maker from Belleville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, who became known as one of the heroes of the Donner Party because he led the Forlorn Hope group ...
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Based on the data we have from 13 states and New York City, plus China, Italy, and South Korea, more men than women are dying from Covid-19. The CDC hasn’t yet tracked the numbers for the entir...
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“Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder,” says George Washington to Alexander Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. No truer words can be applied to the many fighting Covid-19 or t...
As the Covid-19 crisis tears up the fabric of American society and President Trump acknowledges 100,000 to 240,000 Americans may die, we see one truth emerge: no one wants to die alone. Unfortuna...
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As an American people and as American citizens we grow the most through hardship and through learning from our mistakes. This is certainly true now in the midst of a global pandemic. Governor And...