Donner Dinner Party Donate attracting members eager to experience

attracting members eager to experience everything the mountains had to offer

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so eat healthier

and catching your breath in secluded mountain meadows

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Donner Dinner Party Donate attracting members eager to experienceIn the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey toward a new life in California. To save time, they took an ill advised shortcutwith disastrous consequences. Their story would not take them to California but into history. 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 and the lengths that others went to