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Publisher
Distributed by Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A wealthy and proud woman of Chiago, Margaret Reed unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party-- a group of pioneers making their way to California by covered wagon in the summer of 1846. One by one the odds begin to stack against Margaret and her family as precious days slip away and an early winter storm closes the passes through the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Trapped without adequate foor and supplies, Margaret struggles to keep her...
Publisher
Sierra State Parks Foundation
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Based on diaries and letters of the Donner Party families, this video is shown daily to audiences in the Emigrant Trail Museum which opened its doors to the public in September 1962 on the site of the tragic Donner Party Camps of 1846-47. Depicts life on the trail as the pioneers lived it in the mid-1800s as they struggle to survive the terrible winter.
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