Audiobook: The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate

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The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate

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The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the โ€œwestering feverโ€ of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846โ€“1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although this aspect of the tragedy has become synonymous with the Donner Party in the popular imagination, it actually was a minor part of the episode.

The author was about 4 at the time. The first part of the book accounts the tragic journey and rescue attempts; the last half are reminiscences of the child orphan, passed from family to family while growing up.

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