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About 90 immigrants left Springfield, Illinois and headed westward to attempt to make a new shorter route to California.
the donner party
-Numerous delays rough trails/roads
-Became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada mountains
-Reduced to cannibalism to survive through the winter
-Only half the original group made it to California