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Great Salt Lake Men Women And Children
4,456 wordsDAVID McCULLOUGH, Host: Good evening and welcome to The American Experience. I'm David McCullough. At the start of spring in the year 1846 an appealing advertisement appeared in the Springfield, Illinois, Gazette. ''Westward ho, '' it declared. ''Who wants to go to California without costing them anything? As many as eight young men of good character who can drive an ox team will be accommodated. Come, boys, you can have as much land as you want without costing you anything. '' The notice was si...
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Sierra Nevada Donner Party
4,544 words... everyone who still could walked beside the wagons now to spare the exhausted oxen. They were racing against time and the weather, desperate to get over the mountains and into California before snow blocked the heights. There was no sign of Stanton or McCutcheon or of the relief they promised to bring from Sutter's Fort. With the death of Snyder and the banishment of James Reed, the Donner Party was coming apart. On October 7 th, Lewis Keseberg turned an aging Belgian emigrant named Hard koop...
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Donner Party Sierra Nevada
2,849 wordsThe Donner Party Its one of the greatest tragedies of all time, yet few of us know the whole story. The story is of the misled, inexperienced Donner Party. It is the story of eighty-one emigrants who traveled in hopes of reaching the land of California. Forty-seven, whose hopes were crushed by many contributing factors. The most horrible and misleading factor of all was the human mind and its persistent need to explore and conquer everything, whether within reach or not in the shortest and faste...
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Donner Party Three Days
2,359 wordsDonner Party Was the Donner Party a huge tragedy, or a fatal mistake just waiting to happen to anyone? This paper is going to show the mistakes and mishaps of the Donner Party. When George Donner, and his brother Jake took the advice of a man they did not know, they felt confident in his word. He told them of a trail that was supposedly faster than the popular California Trail. They took his advice and set off. The party left with an abundant amount of food and supplies. The party looked no diff...
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Donner Party American West
845 wordsLets roll Wagons West: The Epic Story of Americas Overland Trails by Frank Mc Lynn 510 pp, Cape It is extraordinary to recall that when the Lewis and Clark expedition returned from the first crossing of America in 1806, the USs western frontier was still largely defined by the Appalachian mountains. Yet within just 50 years of that legendary journey, the nation had acquired almost the entire region the explorers had traversed as far as the Pacific. In California alone there were more than 200, 0...
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