
A wagon train chasing the promise of a better life, a shortcut that became a death sentence, and a winter no one was ready for. The Donner Party set out for California in 1846 and ended up snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, trapped for months with dwindling food, rising panic, and an unthinkable choice: starve together, or survive by consuming the dead. By the time rescuers finally broke through the drifts, the trail they left behind was less a story of pioneers and more a gruesome legend of desperation, betrayal, and what humans are capable of when there is nothing left to eat.
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