Crash Lessons
Journey through history's most stirring disasters.
Crash Lessons is a podcast that talks about everything that could had and did go wrong. From natural to man-made disasters. Join your host Robyn each week as she talks about all things disaster.
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The Donner Party
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On today’s episode we are talking about the Donner Party. A group of emigrants headed to the Coast from the Midwest for a better and healthier life get stuck in the mountains all because they listened to the wrong man. Many people died and the others did what they had to do to survive.
sources
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Donner-party
https://www.history.com/articles/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-donner-party
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/donner/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-donnerparty/
https://www.johndclare.net/EAW2.htm
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