The Donner Party with Chelsey Weber-Smith
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The Ox Hides and the Roof
17 men, women and children decide to go on what's eventually called the forlorn hope. They take six days rations rifle, blanket, hatchet, pistols, and they say, ok, let's go. At night they're freezing, obviously, it's so cold. Then during the day they become really, really hot ecause their clothes are just hovered in sweat over and over again. And then they're freezing. And it's just this like, never ending onslaught of discomforts that you and i just don't haven't seen before.
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