Saloons, Shootouts, and Spurs by Kenneth McIntosh

Author:Kenneth McIntosh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Saloons, Shootouts, and Spurs: The Wild West in the 1800s
ISBN: 9781422296813
Publisher: National Highlights Inc
Published: 2011-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

A gold miner’s life was hard and often disappointing.

EXTRA! EXTRA! GOLD RUSH!

Donner Party Disaster

California Star

(In the winter of 1847 snow trapped a wagon train headed for California and the party ran out of food. Two brothers, Jacob and George Donner, were leaders of the group.)

After wandering about a number of days bewildered in the snow, their provisions gave out, and long hunger made it necessary to resort to that horrid recourse casting lots to see who should give up life, that their bodies might be used for food for the remainder. But at this time the weaker began to die which rendered it unnecessary to take life, and as they died the company went into camp and made meat of the dead bodies of their companions. After travelling thirty days, 7 out of the 16 arrived within 15 miles of Capt. Johnson’s, the first house of the California settlements; and most singular to relate, all the females that started, 5 women came in safe, and but two of the men, and one of them was brought in on the back of an Indian. Nine of the men died and seven of them were eaten by their companions.

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