Thursday, July 22, 2004
The Donner Party mystery
The discovery last week of what is believed to be definitive evidence of a Donner Party campsite resonates in a way few other discoveries can. The 158-year-old cooking hearth and bone fragments found in Nevada's Tahoe National Forest sends a shiver up the modern-day spine, for the remains are likely to hold the truth of one of the darkest tales of this country's migration West.
posted by Prof. Hex at 10:12 PM
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