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Tragic Donner Party Remembered on Overland Trail
A reminiscence recounts the 1846 Donner party from Springfield Illinois to California. It covers the Hastings Cutoff disaster the deaths from hunger thirst and cold and the cannibalism episodes near Donner Lake with survival details and later memorials.
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Elmo Scott Watson
California
Donner
Illinois
Oregon Trail
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Promised Land
Springfield
Til
High
Sierras
Galesburg
Death Valley
Callifornia
Mexico
Pacific Coast
Golden West
James F. Reed
George
Jacob
Reed
Eliza Donner
Virgina Reed
Edwin Bryant
Nebraska
Fort Laramie
Fort Bridger
Donners, Reeds
Hastings
Fort Hall
Humboldt River
Nevada
Weber Canyon
Hasting
Graves
Lacon, Ii
W. F. Graves
Jay Fosdick
John Snyder
Virginia Reed
Prairies
Spencer Ellsworth
Lavon, DL
Snyder
Donner Lake
Ellsworth
Sacramento
Sutter's Fort
Deathleas