Sunstone Mormon History Podcast

E103: The Donner Party and the Mormons

07.14.2023 - By SunstonePlay

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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

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