The Donner Party with Chelsey Weber-Smith
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The donner party was heading to California when they ran into problems. The trees were so thick that the men couldn't move through them. They spent two days chopping down trees and then moving like an inch forward. At one point it's so steep that the oxen can't get a grip, and suddenly a rope snapped,. It just cart wheeled over itself, oxen and all, until it fell off a cliff.
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