Donner Dinner Party Donate but The Green Book and

but The Green Book and its role in helping a generation of African American travelers avoid some of the indignities of Jim Crow are historical fact

though he died in 1969

even early aviators used a beacon at the Summit for guidance across the Sierras

and catching your breath in secluded mountain meadows

Donner Dinner Party Donate but The Green Book andIn the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey toward a new life in California. To save time, they took an ill advised shortcutwith disastrous consequences. Their story would not take them to California but into history. 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