Podcasts History Laughs from the Past 88. Wild West | The Donner Party (part 2)

88. Wild West | The Donner Party (part 2)

Published: May 12, 2020, 7 a.m.

It’s the winter of 1847 in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and the Donnor party is stranded in the vicinity of Truckee Lake. The various families are separately camped in a number of old hunting cabins, with some of them separated by nearly a day’s trek

Survival is bleak.