Samuel Woodworth
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Samuel Woodworth was an American writer, literary journalist, playwright, librettist, and poet. He is best remembered for the poem "The Old Oaken Bucket", but he is also the first American to write a
Illustration for "The Old Oaken Bucket", 1882
Donner Party
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The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent t
Samuel Woodworth
…his life, dying there on December 9, 1842. Woodworth's son, Selim E. Woodworth, was a U.S. Navy officer who took part in the rescue of the snowbound Donner Party in California. The USS Woodworth (DD-460) was named for him. Woodworth is best known for the poem "The Old Oaken Bucket" (1817). The first stanza reads…
The 28th page of Patrick Breen's diary, recording his observations in late February 1847, including "Mrs Murphy said here yesterday that thought she would Commence on Milt & eat him. I dont that she has done so yet, it is distressing." [sic]
An encampment of tents and covered wagons on the Humboldt River in Nevada, 1859
James and Margret Reed
Emigration Canyon, route of the Hastings Cutoff