Many people don't realize just how many Mormons were part of the fated Donner/Reed tragedy. In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan discuss the horrible tale of travel gone awry.

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• The Emigrants' guide to Oregon and California by Lansford Hastings
• The strange, sad and influential lives of the Donner Party survivors
• The Mormons and the Donner Party by Eugene E. Campbell
• Nathaniel V. Jones diary, 1846 July-1847 August
• The journal of James Frazier Reed
• CROSSROADS IN THE WEST: THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE DONNER PARTY AND THE MORMONS by Guy L. Dorius