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Breakfast with the Donner Party

AIR DATE: April 29, 2010

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We look at recent allegations that the infamous Donner Party did not practice cannibalism.

Guest
Frank Mullen, Jr., author, The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47

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The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47

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