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Where Kara left off, the Donner party had already been trying to survive in the wild during a winter and as food ran out, desperation forced the living to consider the dead a viable source of food. And in this episode we discover that just because they were eventually "rescued" they weren't out of the woods yet... LITERALLY. In what turns into a situation of hope and survival, we get to see that even though everyone was suffering the decent, kind, and crazy strong among our species will rise to the top to help others.
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Children Comprised Over Half of the Stranded Party
Abraham Lincoln was invited to join the Donners
The "shortcut" took more time than it saved. The supposed 6 month journey took 1 year and 11 days.
There was an immediate media response after the tragedy that spread the story across the entire U.S.
The winter of 1846-1847 was considered the worst winter in the Sierra-Nevada's up to that point.
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