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12th May 1846: The Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey to California
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-05-11 21:05:09
Description: The Donner Party departed Independence, Missouri on their ill-fated journey to California. The 1840s had seen a dramatic increase in the number of pioneers undertaking the long and dangerous journey to settle in the western United States. The California Trail shared its initial stages with the 2,170-mile (3,490 km) Oregon Trail but, after reading about a short cut in a guidebook by Lansford Hastings, a party led by George Donner and James F. Reed decided to take this route. The group of 20 wagons carrying almost 90 people found the Hastings Cutoff to be considerably rougher terrain than they had been ...
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