April 21, 2004

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  157 YEARS AGO TODAY

  
  

  

  
  

  Apr 21 1847

  
  

  Lewis Keseberg, the final member of the Donner Party still stranded in the mountains, is escorted to safety by a fourth rescue party.

  
  

  Later accounts hold that Keseberg was discovered "seated, like a ghoul, in the midst of dead bodies, with his face and hands smeared with blood, and a kettle of human flesh boiling over the fire."

  
  

   

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