The Boston Globe, April 21st, 1997
DONNER PASS, Calif. -- The gruesome story of what happened to a group of pioneers here 150 years ago still draws 50,000 people a year to this spot near Lake Tahoe, where they walk the same land, view the same impenetrable High Sierra, and think about how the Donner Party became snowbound and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. The Donner Party was made up of nearly 100 men, women, and children who set out from the Midwest in 1846 under the leadership of George Donner. Like thousands of other migrants heading to California even before gold was struck, the members of the Donner Party were l...
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