Survival

Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 1

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Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: On May 12, 1846, a wagon train set out toward the West Coast of North America. The trip should have taken four months. In the end, it dragged on for a year, exacerbated by bad weather and rapidly dwindling food stores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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