To: tuffydoodle
I don't know any of the people in the houses in the background. They are a good ways away. We live right on the Emigrant Trail and there are a lot of historical markers around. Lots of old mines up in the hills behind and an old ghost town. Virginia City is behind and on the left up in the mountains.
We took a trip on ATV's to the Forty Mile Desert (about 45 minutes away) and to see what they had to cross was unbelievable. Found wood and oxen bones out there still from livestock lost and things left behind.
71 posted on
01/04/2007 6:10:10 AM PST by
Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: Duchess47
I'm looking up "emigrant trail" for some pics. Do you live nearer the Appplegate Trail (says it starts at Lassen meadows in Nevada and ends in southern Oregon) or the Carson Trail (starts at the Humboldt Bar in Nevada, crosses the Sierra nevada at Carson Pass and ends in Pleasant Valley near Placerville, CA)
73 posted on
01/04/2007 6:20:10 AM PST by
tuffydoodle
(Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
To: Duchess47
For awhile there, you could follow that trail in the dark from the oxen bones glowing as they decomposed.
74 posted on
01/04/2007 6:21:37 AM PST by
AnAmericanMother
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To: Duchess47
75 posted on
01/04/2007 6:26:03 AM PST by
tuffydoodle
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