Excerpt from The Lighted Way
One beautiful day in June, our train was climbing the eastern slopes of the Sierras, and we were watching the ever-changing scenery spread out before us. As we rounded the steep side of a mountain, away below us in a little valley we saw a beautiful lake, placid and blue. Then my attention was called to a monument in the shape of a cross that stands in the valley near the lake, erected in memory of the ill-fated Donner party of immigrants who perished there in the winter of 1846. In a few hours we had scaled the summit, and were coasting down the sunny western slopes, past the famous gold diggings of those early days. But the Donner party never reached these gold fields of their quest.
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