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Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 1

Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 1

FromSurvival


Best of 2019: The Donner Party Pt. 1

FromSurvival

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Dec 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: On May 12, 1846, a wagon train set out toward the West Coast of North America. The trip should have taken four months. In the end, it dragged on for a year, exacerbated by bad weather and rapidly dwindling food stores.
Released:
Dec 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (27)

When the stakes are life and death, you'd be surprised at the lengths you’d go to survive. Pain, hunger, and fear can seem like paralyzing obstacles, but in the face of real danger, they’re actually what keeps us alive. ​Every week, we'll follow a different survivor's visceral and inspiring fight for life, and examine how the trauma impacted them forever. ​These are the stories of what happens when the human self-preservation instinct is pushed to its limit, through the eyes of the world's most resilient survivors. Survival is a production of Cutler Media and part of the Parcast Network.