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Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, Bk 3)
Donner Dinner Party - Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, Bk 3 Author:Nathan Hale In the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey to California. To save time, they took an ill-advised shortcut—with disastrous consequences. — Bad weather, bad choices, and just plain bad luck forced the pioneers to spend a long, cold winter in the mountains, slowly starving. What they did to stay alive a... more »nd the lengths that others went to in order to rescue them make this one of the most tragic and infamous stories of the American frontier.
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If you know nothing more about the Donner Party than that some survived by eating the dead, then this is well worth reading to find out what happened, and why so many got trapped and left behind, and what became of them all.