Don Wildman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Just to clarify things, we're not even at the Sierra Nevada yet.
This is long before that.
There's going to be a desert after this.
This is the first of these obstacles that happens up.
Now, I just have to clarify, they find a letter.
How would they have found that letter?
Was it just nailed to a tree or something?
And he didn't know that it would get so hard because he'd never traveled that far east because he was doing this backwards, right?
He was doing it from California.
But he's so close.
This is why I have to read this book, because there's so many details that even heighten it even more than we think we know.
It gets really heightened later on.
But even beforehand, the ironies and the switchbacks of the story, if you will, are incredible.
By late August, they'd gotten out of the Wasatch and they'd begun to cross this desert.
The desert we're talking about is the Great Basin, right?