Donner Lake

cross-country railroad that he ended up known as "Crazy Judah." In 1859, Judah got a letter from Daniel Strong, a vendor in Dutch Flat, California, offering to indicate Judah the best course along the old wanderer street through the mountains close Donner Pass. The course had a slow ascent and required the line to cross the summit of just a single mountain as opposed to two. Judah concurred and he and Strong drew up letters of fuse for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. On July 1st, president…

In 1849, the California Gold Rush drew attention to the Pacific Coast. Around that time, Theodore Judah, an engineer, discovered Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevadas in 1860 (Railroad). With this discovery in hand, Judah rushed to President Abraham Lincoln and Congress with the proposal of a Transcontinental Railroad. Due to the Civil War in 1861, much of the southern congressmen had…

In the year of 1861, in the midst of America’s Civil War, Congress authorized one of the most ambitious projects that the country had ever envisioned: the construction of a transcontinental railroad. At one end of this immensely long railroad system which was planned to be over 1,700 miles long __ was the Central Pacific Railroad which stretched across the lands of California, the harsh granite walls of the Sierra Nevada and onwards to connect with the Union Pacific in Utah. Through my research…

“You better get in this house before the windigo gets you.” This is a phrase many of us grew up hearing from our mothers, when it was time to come in the house. In my mind, that was kind of like “the boogie man.” Neither of them were a real threat, I had no fear or horrifying images, it just meant it was time to come in the house. When I saw windigo psychosis as an option for this culture-bound syndrome term paper, I choose it for a couple reasons, first I remembered the phrase from above and…