Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West Donate a friendly attendant at a

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The first transcontinental railroad in the United States and the first transcontinental highway in America both made use of the Donner Summit route to gain access to California

This book explores and examines twenty-one of the Old West's most baffling mysteries

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West Donate a friendly attendant at aIn late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the