Word: donner
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...BAND OF SETTLERS LEFT ILLInois for California. They ended up stranded in the Sierra Nevada at the outset of the worst winter ever recorded there. By the time the starving survivors straggled into Sutter's Fort, THE DONNER PARTY had written one of the darkest chapters in American history, a tale of humans reduced to the most desperate circumstances -- including, famously, cannibalism. For this PBS documentary, Ric Burns, a co-producer with his brother Ken of The Civil War, uses the same techniques as that series -- archival photographs, readings from diaries and letters -- to re-create the story with harrowing...
RICHARD RHODES HAS WRITTEN about the unspeakable and the unthinkable. His first book, The Ungodly, was an epic treatment of the Donner party, those galloping gourmets who survived the Rocky Mountain winter of 1847 by eating their dead. The Making of the Atomic Bomb traced the thin line between creative genius and mindless annihilation...