07.14.2023 - By Sunstone
Many people don't realize just how many Mormons were part of the fated Donner/Reed tragedy. In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan discuss the horrible tale of travel gone awry.
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The Emigrants' guide to Oregon and California by Lansford Hastings
The strange, sad and influential lives of the Donner Party survivors
The Mormons and the Donner Party by Eugene E. Campbell
Nathaniel V. Jones diary, 1846 July-1847 August
The journal of James Frazier Reed
CROSSROADS IN THE WEST: THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE DONNER PARTY AND THE MORMONS by Guy L. Dorius