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Historical archives · bancroft.berkeley.edu/diaries/parkman-1849 · confidence · high
Diary of George F. Parkman, Sept–Nov 1849 — Sierra Crossing
"…the snows came two weeks earlier than any year remembered. Three of our company perished above what they call Truckee Pass before the relief broke through…"
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Books & long-form · archive.org/details/donner-stewart-1936 · confidence · high
Ordeal by Hunger — George R. Stewart (1936)
"By December the Pass was sealed under 14 feet of snow. Mortality among the parties stranded above the cabins reached 41% by the time the first relief party arrived in mid-February…"
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Academic · jstor.org/stable/4451092 · confidence · medium
"Trail Mortality in the Far West, 1840–1860" — Western Historical Quarterly
"Aggregated estimates for trail-related deaths place the Sierra Nevada crossings at 8–12% above the comparable Plains routes between 1845 and 1852, with 1849 showing the worst single-season mortality on record…"
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News & periodicals · cdnc.ucr.edu/sf-alta/1850-02-14 · confidence · medium
"Arrivals from the Mountains" — Daily Alta California, 14 Feb 1850
"…the surviving party reports that of the eighty-one souls in the original company, thirty-three did not come down. Provisions had been reduced to boiled hide for the latter five weeks…"
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General web · en.wikipedia.org/Sierra_Nevada_Crossings · confidence · low (encyclopedic)
Sierra Nevada Crossings — Wikipedia
"Overview article. Use only to navigate to primary sources; treat all unsourced claims as provisional…"
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Diary of George F. Parkman — Sierra Crossing 1849
"Comparing this against Stewart 1936 for cross-verification of November mortality figures. Confidence raising from medium → high."
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Diary of George F. Parkman, 1849 · lane Historical archives
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