Our newsletter, The Heirloom, is one of the the best sources for stories and pictures about the history of Donner Summit. Use the indices here to look for articles and pictures you'd like to see. Use the year links below to all of our editions. Those pages have descriptions of the topics covered in each issue each year. The Heirlooms are all PDF's. Except as noted they are all of reasonable size due to judicious use of Adobe Acrobat's file shrinking capabilities.

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Below: outside the Soda Springs Hotel. The Hotel served as a bus station as did the store across the street and the Norden Store up the road (all for different companies). Today no buses stop on Donner Summit.