WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of cannibalism.
The Donner Party experiences the worst case scenario. They’re starving and living in crude shelters. A small group begins the trek over the mountains to find help, but it loses members along the way. The people who remain trapped near Truckee Lake become increasingly desperate. But early in the new year of 1847, rescue parties start to arrive at the camps near the lake. The rescuers can hardly believe the conditions of the camps and the people. And the survivors tell the story of the most infamous wagon train in American history.
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MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 2 | “Jedediah Smith: Making History”
MOUNTAIN MEN Ep. 1 | “Jedediah Smith: Ashley’s Hundred”
BONUS | Soundtrack: Western Songs, Vol. 1
TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 6 | “McNelly’s Rangers”
TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 5 | “McNelly On The Border”
TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 4 | “Family Feuds”
TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 3 | “Mason County War”
TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 2 | “Frontier Battalion”
TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 1 | “Civil War”
Change Agents with Andy Stumpf: Kevin Costner
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 6 | “Sinner and Saint”
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 5 | “Mountain Meadows Massacre”
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 4 | “New Zion”
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 3 | “A Mormon Samson”
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 2 | “Destroying Angel”
ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL Ep. 1 | “Faith and Fervor”
OUTLAWS Ep. 6 | Ned Christie: “Legend and Legacy”
OUTLAWS Ep. 5 | Ned Christie: “Ned’s Fort”
OUTLAWS Ep. 4 | Ned Christie: “Making A Murderer”
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