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Today is the day that you get to hear the thrilling end to one of the craziest and depressing moments in American history up to the 1850: The tragedy of the Donner Party. Check out Episode 52 and Episode 54 for the background that feeds into this conclusion. Be sure to give those a listen on thedaysdumpsterfire.com to get caught up.

Where Kara left off, the Donner party had already been trying to survive in the wild during a winter and as food ran out, desperation forced the living to consider the dead a viable source of food. And in this episode we discover that just because they were eventually "rescued" they weren't out of the woods yet... LITERALLY. In what turns into a situation of hope and survival, we get to see that even though everyone was suffering the decent, kind, and crazy strong among our species will rise to the top to help others.

Kara mentions that there is a fair amount of hidden coins and other pieces of jewelry hidden in the Sierras from the Donner Party and if you want to read up on it and perhaps try and find it on your own, you can find some of the details here.

Lastly, be sure to keep checking thedaysdumpsterfire.com for updates and to see the latest of artwork that Kara uploads (rumor has it that the artwork for this episode may or may not include a blinged out double decker Conestoga wagon.

So sit back, relax, and think hard about the next time you want to take a shortcut in life, after all, look what happened to the Donner Party.

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