Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This stunning winter scene captures Donner Summit, a historic mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada, blanketed in a thick layer of ...

It was late fall in 1844 when a group of pioneers, horses, oxen and wagons arrived on the shore of a beautiful lake embedded below the wall of the Sierra Nevada. Snow had already accumulated on the ...

The locomotive of The City of San Francisco is shown covered in ice and snow after a blizzard trapped the train on the tracks in January 1952 near the Donner Pass in northern California’s Sierra ...