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A Pioneer Tale . . .

"What would you do to survive?"

In the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey to California. To save time, they took an ill-advised shortcut—with disastrous consequences.

Bad weather, bad choices, and just plain bad luck forced the pioneers to spend a long, cold winter in the mountains, slowly starving. What they did to stay alive and the lengths that others went to in order to rescue them make this one of the most tragic and infamous stories of the American frontier.

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Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale

1976 -
American
The spy Nathan Hale was executed in 1776. The author Nathan Hale was born in 1976. Nathan is the illustrator of the  Eisner-nominated Rapunze... See more

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