Seven miles southeast of here, Gravely Ford was a favorite pioneer crossing of the Humboldt River and a campsite of the Donner Party. Here the Snyder-Reed fight occurred: as Snyder lashed at Reed, he missed and hit Reed's wife, and Reed then killed Snyder. Reed was banished from the wagon train without food, but his daughter smuggled food to him, enabling him to reach California. He later returned to rescue them from being snowed in at Donner Lake. In 1861, Indians massacred a wagon train. A squaw tried to save a child, but was chased for days, was caught, and the child killed.