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The Donner Party

Everything Everywhere Daily

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The Challenges of the Hastings Cut-Off

Learn about the challenges faced by the parties on the Hastings Cut-Off, a disastrous route during the westward expansion in 1846, including impassable mud flats, a barren desert without water, and being stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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