”Īs for Indians, Hastings’ wrote, with no irony, that they “in numerous instances, abandoned their old haunts, and re-established in other portions of the country, but for what cause, it is difficult to ascertain, with any degree of certainty, for the sites which have been thus abandoned, appear in many instances, to possess advantages much superior, to those which have been subsequently selected.” “At times, I sympathize with these unfortunate beings, but again, I frequently think, that perhaps, are thus ridden and restrained and if they are thus priest ridden, it is, no doubt, preferable, that they should retain their present riders. In his “guide” he depicted Indians as lazy and Mexicans as dishonest, blaming much of the latter on the priests of the Roman Catholic Church. “How different are the priests of California from those of the same denomination of christians in our own country?” To make up for the lack of “excrescences,” Hastings regaled the reader with lengthy and snarky anecdotes regarding “Californians,” gamblers and drunks all. The book had almost no practical advice, in spite of the crowing in its preface of providing “a description of the different routes and all necessary information relative to the equipment, supplies, and the method of traveling” with the caveat that “all excrescences have been cautiously lopped off, leaving scarcely any thing more than a mere collection of interesting, important and practical facts.” Hastings, at age twenty-three, had made a trip west in 1842. The author was Lansford Warren Hastings, a young real-estate entrepreneur from Ohio who had financial and political interests in California. To get from Illinois to California, the Donner-Reed party had relied, in part, on a bestselling book called The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California. The first woman spoke in a hollow voice very much agitated and said ‘are you men from California or do you come from heaven?'” Dan Rhoads, one of the rescuers wrote, “They were gaunt with famine and I never can forget the horrible ghastly sight they presented. The first of the lost souls, located near Truckee Lake in the Sierra Nevada, had been found on February 18. The last surviving member arrived at Sutter’s Fort more than a year after the original party had departed from Springfield, Illinois. On Apthe nearly three month-long rescue of survivors of the now-infamous Donner-Reed Party ended. The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California No one can tell what will happen to a person when he dies until he himself experience death.“Remember, never take no cutoffs and hurry along as fast as you can.” - Virginia Reed.What would be our conditions when we died'.Does a person go to heaven or hell right after he dies?.What happen to a person when he dies? What is the truth about death?.Do you practice tithing or forced to give ten percent of your income?.Are there specific amount or particular percentage of the earnings to give?.Why giving monetary contributions during worship services?.What are the differences between the Bible and the Qur'an?.What is the origin of the chapter and verse divisions of the Bible?.How the Holy Scriptures came to be called 'the Bible'?.Why Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) don't baptize infants or babies?.Why need to receive baptism? What is baptism for.

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