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Christmas with the Donner Party

December 25, 2020 Frank X. Mullen 0

In 1846, a group of families, including dozens of children, spent December stranded in deep snow during one of the deadliest winters ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada. Even there, entrapped and on the edge […]

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A team of athlete-researchers from Northern California plans to retrace the route of members of the doomed Donner Party who made a break for safety while stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the terrible winter […]

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