Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to California
  • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    I would hope the crew wouldnt mention that tidbit to the passengers till after they got rolling again.

    • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Furniture salesman Mark Sullivan was among the passengers who realized that members of the Donner party had frozen to death nearby a century earlier. “People talked about it quite a bit,”

      Looks like the passengers figured it out on their own