Salt & Snow: Lansford W. Hastings, The Donner Party, and the Haste to Blame Donner Party Two subjects continue to fascinate

Two subjects continue to fascinate people—the Old West and a good mystery

the “expert storyteller” (True West) compellingly recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate

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500 people who's homeland stretched from Mono Lake in the South to Honey Lake in the North the Washoe were reduced to only 500 people in 1866 with no land to call their own

Salt & Snow: Lansford W. Hastings, The Donner Party, and the Haste to Blame Donner Party Two subjects continue to fascinateSalt and Snow follows promoter and expansionist Lansford Hastings, author of the Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California, and his role in the opening of a new wagon route in 1846. His demanding cutoff started from Fort Bridger to the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, then west across the Salt Desert. The narrative also follows the Donner Party wagon train and the choices they made before, during, and after their unwise decision to take Hastings