New Book: The Donner Party’s Deadly Fork in the Road

The Donner Party spurned the advice of a mountain man they met, who told them to stick to the trail west and avoid an alternative route. David A. Price reviews “The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny” by Michael Wallis.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-donner-partys-deadly-fork-in-the-road-1496702248

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