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True Crime Kent

The Donner Party Part 2

True Crime Kent

Kent Chungus

True Crime

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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0:00.0

This is True Crime Kids. The And we are back, back for the Donner Party, part two, when we left them in part one.

0:34.8

It was mid-June of 1846.

0:38.3

They had went through a few setbacks.

0:41.2

Everything was going relatively okay for them so far.

0:44.9

They'd lost an old lady, but it was somebody's mother-in-law,

0:47.4

so it's like, you've got to take the good with the bat,

0:50.4

and a river had risen due to the rain and made crossing it impossible for days.

0:56.4

But regardless of these setbacks, they had adapted and overcame.

1:01.2

And at the end of the episode, we left the Donner Party sitting somewhere in a prairie in Nebraska.

1:08.9

And they had bellies full of buffalo steak.

1:12.3

They were sitting at a campfire telling stories.

1:15.2

They were excited.

1:16.0

They were feeling good.

1:18.5

And everything seemed okay.

1:20.8

But all of that is getting ready to start changing at mock holy motherfucker very shortly, though. And I think that catches us up so far,

1:30.7

doesn't it? Yeah. I think June in Nebraska with Buffalo steaks is, I mean, some people

1:39.4

nowadays will pay for that experience. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, I mean, they would 100% also be a hipster,

1:46.9

but you have to search out the smell of camp fire, charcoal, and gunpowder in 2025,

1:54.2

whereas this was kind of a, because now I buy soap that's supposed to smell like the Oregon Trail,

2:00.6

you know, and you know that's not real smell like the Oregon Trail, you know.

2:01.1

And you know that's not real.

2:02.8

Like you buy Squatch, the Sasquatch soap, and it's like, smells like the Oregon Trail

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