The Donner Party It's one of the greatest tragedies of all time, yet few of us know the whole story. The story is of the misled, inexperienced Donner Party. It is the story of eighty-one emigrants who traveled in hopes of reaching the land of California. Forty-seven, whose hopes were crushed by many contributing factors. The most horrible and misleading factor of all was the human mind and its persistent need to explore and conquer …showed first 75 words of 2809 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2809 total…of the human mind. If we weren't always so eager to take the easy or the short way, we would save ourselves expansive amounts of trouble. It's funny how we learn the most valuable lessons from tragedies such as this, but I guess that's just another example of our human nature. Word Cited King, Joseph A., The Donner Party New York: G. Braziller, 1972 McGlachan, C.F., History of the Donner Party Ann Arbor University: Microfilms, 1966