The Donner Party Part 3
True Crime Kent
Kent Chungus
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 123 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is True Crime Kids. I'm And we are back for part three of our series on the Donner Party. |
| 0:34.0 | How you doing, Joe? |
| 0:35.1 | You know what? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm doing just fine. You look dandy. |
| 0:39.5 | You've got a beanie on shirt. Well, you know, it was below 70 degrees down here in the south. |
| 0:48.7 | So that calls for a beanie. With your beanie on, you look like a much more masculine version of early idubs. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay. |
| 1:00.0 | All right. |
| 1:00.7 | Like idubs, if he had aged, I don't know, 10, 15 years and got on some TRT or something like that. |
| 1:07.9 | Well, I get that because this is a double-rolled beanie. |
| 1:11.1 | So the role is quite extended. |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.5 | I've got it rolled up twice. |
| 1:17.1 | But, yeah. |
| 1:18.3 | Anyways, when we left the Donner Party in part two, they had to cut through a mountain, basically, and make a path through a mountain. |
| 1:26.7 | They had gone hungry. they had gone thirsty. |
| 1:29.3 | They had hacked their way through Hastings cutoff, which was a lie, |
| 1:34.3 | and it really fucked him over. |
| 1:36.3 | And on Friday, September 26th, 1846, |
| 1:40.3 | ragged and half dead, the Donner Party wagon train comes stumbling out of the Ruby Mountains |
| 1:47.7 | there at the South Fork of the Humboldt River in what is now Elko, Nevada. |
| 1:55.0 | Now, they had been suffering for the past 68 days, and they had finally completed the not infamous, actually completely unheard of, |
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