Mary the Family Deer Donner Party At the beginning of the

At the beginning of the twentieth century

Species organized by color for quick and easy identification

the people who remained back in their wagons resorted to the most desperate of measures in attempts to either stay alive or keep their children alive

Locals say the ghosts of the Donner Party haunt their doomed campsite in the Sierras

the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness

Mary the Family Deer Donner Party At the beginning of theBill Soll Dewhurst and her three sisters grew up in the Caretakers Cottage on the I. W. Hellman Estate at what is now Sugar Pine Point State Park. Bills father Henry was the caretaker of the property until is sold to the State in 1965. One of her favorite memories is that of their domesticated pet deer, Mary. Bill always knew that Mary was nearby because of the bell she had around her neck. As shared with us during a visit with Bill at her home in