Donner Party Survival - The Diary and the Silence: What Patrick Breen Refused to Write

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Donner Party Survival - The Diary and the Silence: What Patrick Breen Refused to Write

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Raven Thorne examines Patrick Breen's 1846-47 Donner Party diary, the only contemporaneous account of the Sierra Nevada entrapment. Through analysis of weather observations and strategic omissions about starvation, this episode explores how survivors document horror and what silences reveal about moral survival.

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