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READ | History of the Donner Party

When the June sunshine gladdened the Sacramento Valley, three little barefooted girls walked here and there among the houses and tents of Sutter’s Fort. They were scantily clothed, and one carried a thin blanket. At night they said their prayers, … Continue reading

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READ | David Grann’s Lost City of Z

Kidnapping. Cannibalism. International espionage. A famous explorer mysteriously vanished never to be heard from again. Few books could plausibly weave those all of those elements into a single story, but David Grann’s “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon” can and does. Most remarkable, it’s a true story. Continue reading

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