Matt McKeon
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I'm reading this book about the Donner Party and the Oregon Trail in 1846.(might read de Soto's 1846: Year of Decision)
The two leading figures are Jacob Donner and James Reed. Reed was actually of Polish descent, his name was originally Radnosky. He was in the same Black Hawk war militia company as Abraham Lincoln and Robert Anderson! His connection with Lincoln extended to legal work, and members of the Todd family saw off the ill fated wagon train when it left Springfield, Illinois early in the spring of 1846.
The two leading figures are Jacob Donner and James Reed. Reed was actually of Polish descent, his name was originally Radnosky. He was in the same Black Hawk war militia company as Abraham Lincoln and Robert Anderson! His connection with Lincoln extended to legal work, and members of the Todd family saw off the ill fated wagon train when it left Springfield, Illinois early in the spring of 1846.