Secrets in the Ice
The Donner Party's Lost Legacy
Season 4 Episode 10 of 10
The lost legacy of the Donner Party, a group of nearly 90 emigrants who left Illinois in the spring of 1846, heading westward to California in covered wagons. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the next winter snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, with some resortinf to cannibalism to survive
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