Secrets in the Ice
The Donner Party's Lost Legacy
Season 4 Episode 10 of 10
The lost legacy of the Donner Party, a group of nearly 90 emigrants who left Illinois in the spring of 1846, heading westward to California in covered wagons. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the next winter snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, with some resortinf to cannibalism to survive
Secrets in the Ice airs on Sky History HD at 10:00 PM, Monday 14 April. (Subtitles, finale, series, new.)
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