In the January, ’21 Heirloom: 2020 Reprise of the Forlorn Hope (1846 escapees from Donner Lake); The Insignificance of man in the Sierra; Support and Equipment; Who Are These People?; Finding the Original Route; The Missing Four Pages; Book Review – the Diary of Patrick Breen; Book Review – Lost Ski Areas of Tahoe and Donner
In the February, '21 Heirloom:Our 150th issue and some ruminatations; Under Donner Summit: ; e Grandest Adquaduct in the World; The Lost Observatory of Donner Summit; From the Archives of the DSHS; Horse Drops Dead at the sight of an automobile; Snow Mountain Passage and What I Saw in California book reviews; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit; Then and Now's get updated
In the March, '21 Heirloom: The Ice Industry in Ice Lakes; How to Make ice (just in case); Donner; Summit maps, 1866; Clearing the RR of snow, 1874; From the Archives of the DSHS (Hurled from an auto); Some ads from 1907; Unfortunate Emigrants Narratives of the Donner Party (book reviw); Odds and Ends of Donner Summit; The Heirloom Answers (last month’s query); What’s coming in the next exciting issue
In the April, '21 Heirloom: The first Wayfinding signs for Travelers; Continuing on from the March edition; What Dreams He Must Have Had; Consternation; Benjamin Bernard Redding; The Journey of the Mary Jane; Cloudy Title; Patenting Government Land; How People Got Land on Donner Summit; A Lot of Miscellany; How the Research Was Done; Ice Lakes – The Novel; One More Thing
In the May, ’21 Heirloom:Pictures from an album found in Truckee.; Bicycling Over Donner Summit, 1895; More About Ice on Donner Summit; The First Dam in Summit Valley; The Fun the Had in the Old Days – ice contest; from the Archives of the DSHS; The Alta California RR guide, 1871- book review; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit; MOTH, the new Museum of Truckee History preview
In the June, ’21 Heirloom:Duxbury Lowers the Record – another transcontinental bike trip to follow last month’s; From the Archives of the DSHS - Bulldozing snow about 1950; Historical Serendipity - Nyack Lodge (and learn what Nyack means, A Dream Come True (1947); Soda Springs Hotel re-opens; 1951); Dynamiting Loch Leven (1936) and how to get there.; The Schull Family on Donner Summit. Hellacious California! Book review; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit (behind Clair Tappaan); new brochure - Historic Donner Pass Trail (guided tour via QR codes); The Donner Party - Beyond Cannibalism an entry to the National History Day competition by Elijah Madanski
In the July, ’21 Heirloom:History and Development of the Donner Summit Area (from a 1949 speech); From the Archives of the DSHS; Alice’s Drive – book review with a lot added; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit – Mysteries of Donner Summit
In the August ’21Heirloom:We could use some advice; Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Rd. Pt I; Tolls on the Road; Walk the Dutch Flat Rd.; Evidence of the Dutch Flat Donner Lake Road Today; From the Archives of the DSHS – more Dutch Flat; CPRR (1882) – book review; Odds and Ends of Donner Summit
In the September, ’21 Heirloom: Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Rd. Pt. 2 (a scrapbook with lots of ads and pictures); State of the Dutch Flat Rd 1872; From the Archives of the DSHS (including a 1938 calendar in case you need one); Book Review: Days of Hope Miles of Misery; Odds and Ends of Donner Summit (fossils 25 million years old) And – bonus – a nice website with lots of very short California history videos some of which are about Donner Summit (page 14).
In the October ’21 Heirloom: Robert Fowler and Donner Summit, 1911; Beauty in a Box, 1878; From the Archives of the DSHS; Book Review The Life and Times of Robert G. Fowler; Destruction of the Cascade Bridge, 1889; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit
In the November, '21 Heirloom: The winter of 1951-52 The City of San Francisco stranded near Donner Summit Lots of 1952 Snow A Scientific and Cultural Exploration book review by Tom Burns
In the December '21 Heirloom: : Pot Pourri – visiting new contributions related to Crampton’s Lodge (1940(; Local ads from 1940; The Sierra Sentinel, 1940; Holiday Season Drawing Closer, 1940
Hutchinson Lodge, from a 1926 article; An entertaining letter from 1900 about traveling across Donner Summit; From the Archives of the DSHS; Book Review, Imperfect Union; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit; @ the Museum; Two Mini-stories from Nick Chickering