![]() ![]() Most people know what happened next: Delays, attrition, feuds and poor decisions cost the travelers precious time. Everyone had a reason for joining the wagon train. They weren't the only rich folks in the group, either, although there were plenty with light pockets. So they were risk-takers, gamblers, possible optimists. ![]() Fewer still do it when they're already wealthy, as the Donner brothers, George and Jacob, were. The excitement of new beginnings would've been palpable.įew people uproot themselves from the ease of civilization to wander, somewhat blindly, onto a new path. ![]() Putnam's Sons, 384 pages, in stores)Īt its outset, the Donner party must've been extraordinary: 89 people, 20 wagons and herds of cattle all rolling out of Springfield, Illinois, on their way to new lives in California in 1846. ![]()
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