Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West Donate In this photographic journal

In this photographic journal

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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 In this photographic journalIn 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