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December 26 1846 – The Donner Party is Forced to Face Cannibalism in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
by Vishul Malik*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The romance involved with the concept of Manifest Destiny — the idea the United States should stretch from sea to shining sea — took hold of…