Hell in Ice DEVOUR THE SNOW by Abe Polsky
The fate of the Donner Party is a macabre legend in the winning of the West. A group of families set out from Illinois for California in 1846. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by an early snowfall, they built crude shelters of logs and hides. They ate their animals and their shoes. But the darkest art of the 47 survivors out of a party of 82 was to eat their own dead.
Out of this dire saga, Polsky has fashioned a grim drama about the...
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