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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts and diary entries made by participants about the journey *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Like fated trains of other epochs whose privations, sufferings, and self-sacrifices have added renown to colonization movements and served as danger signals to later wayfarers, that party began its journey with song of hope, and within the first milestone of the promised land ended it with a prayer for help. Help for the helpless in the storms of the Sierra Nevada Mountains!" Eliza P. Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate Read more