August 4, 1846. A few months into their journey from Illinois to California, a group of pioneers encounters trouble. They’ve just found a note from their guide. It essentially says, “That shortcut I told you to take through the Wasatch Mountains – don’t.” The setback disastrously delays their trip. Weeks later, when they reach the Sierra Nevada, it’s dangerously late in the season. Soon, a winter storm traps them in the mountains. What did they have to do to survive? And what’s the truth behind the legendary Donner Party?
Special thanks to our guest: Daniel James Brown, author of The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pride & Protest
Freedom Summer, 1964
"Have You No Decency, Sir?"
A Century of Stigma for Black America and Mental Health
A Gilded Age Apocalypse
Captain Kidd and the Nazis
To Fight a Virus, and Win
Beethoven's Silent Symphony
The Hunt for the Hunley
Introducing: Hope, Through History
When the Environment United Us
"Houston We’ve Had a Problem”
The First Flight Around the World
The Deadliest Pandemic in Modern History
When Basketball Meets Jim Crow
How Lady Luck Saved Vegas
The Real Assassination of Caesar
Lionel, Stevie and Tina Walk into a Studio…
The DNA Debate
A Mole in the CIA
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Food That Built America
Not What You Thought You Knew
Letters of Love in WW2