Tag: Westward Expansion

Podcast

12th May 1846: The Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey to California

12th May 2022
Tagged as: American West, California, Cannibalism, Donner Party, Great Salt Lake Desert, Hastings Cutoff, Oregon Trail, Pioneers, Sierra Nevada, United States, USA, Wagon Train, Westward Expansion

The Donner Party departed Independence, Missouri on their ill-fated journey to California.

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29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

29th December 2020
Tagged as: American West, Lakota, Native Americans, Sioux, United States, USA, Westward Expansion, Wild West, Wounded Knee

More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee Massacre.