Episode 34: Manifest Destiny… and Other Bad Ideas

James and Margaret Reed

James REALLY needed to learn how to stop and ask for directions. The man who led the Donner party to their doom.

George Donner

The head of the Donner family he held both a cooler head and people's respect.

Discarded Title Names

Here are the episode titles that "didn't make the cut".

Trail Mix Gone Wrong: The Donner Party Disaster

When Dinner Became Donner

The Original ‘Do Not Attempt This at Home’: Donner Party Edition

Blizzard, Bad Decisions, & the Donner Party

The Oregon Trail

Pictured in orange, the Oregon trail was only traveled the winter months by homesteaders heading to Oregon and California.

The doomed trail.

Seen in red James Reed convinced the caravan to take Hastings Cutoff and would bring about doom to the Donner Party.