Where did the wagon train party fall short?
Back when I was in high school, a group of us loved to go winter camping out in the middle of nowhere. It was calm and peaceful and beautiful. One of the guys was Karl—and maybe it’s better that I didn’t know his background, for Karl’s direct ancestors were named Donner. Yes, that Donner.
The group that got stuck in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846-47. They ran out of food, so they turned to cannibalism. Of 87 folks in the Donner Party
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