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Salt & Snow: Lansford W. Hastings, The Donner Party, and the Haste to Blame Donner Party Editor Chris Highland pairs 60Salt and Snow follows promoter and expansionist Lansford Hastings, author of the Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California, and his role in the opening of a new wagon route in 1846. His demanding cutoff started from Fort Bridger to the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, then west across the Salt Desert. The narrative also follows the Donner Party wagon train and the choices they made before, during, and after their unwise decision to take Hastings