Wow Mark. This is fantastic. I’ve watched many slick documentaries on this subject, but I learned more from your presentation. Thank you!

Great presentation, absolutely jam-packed with factoids. McLaughlin brings enthusiasm and does a wonderful job speaking; all the while, making the information learnable. Splendid!

Stationed at Camp Nimble , South Korea back in 88/89 and my unit was scheduled for a field Manuver. Winter, the ONE and ONLY TIME are unit left on time!! As soon as we entered Camp Casey the post was closed due to winter storm and blizzard conditions. So we had to go yo our designated area and set up tents. Only 1 heater worked so everyone crowded into the one tent. People were smoking in the tent so luckily I had driven my Crane and decided to stay in my Crane. Had the heat on, window cracked, feet up, nice and comfortable. This was nothing compared to what the cold was like for the Donner party. We just had yo tolerate this for 1 day before luckily we were able to leave the post and go back to our WARM barracks. I had tights, Xtra t-shirts under my uniform, field jacket with liner, warm socks- plus changed my socks when they became wet, gloves, food and water. PLUS I was just side my nice warm vehicle. It's easy to say what someone should do, what you would have done, etc but believing what you would do and what you really do are 2 different things.

I watched the movie last night my heart went out to all of them true survival thank you for sharing 😄

Awesome lecture, I learned a lot! Thanks!

Excellent excellent presentation. So much extra information. Thankyou Mark. Off to buy your book

Excellent presentation. Didn't think I'd end up watching the whole video but it went by so fast.

What an incredible presentation! It's like he was there!

Thank you for uploading this. Very nice lecture!

Thank you for sharing this. I enjoyed every minute.

Same winter that doomed the Franklin Expedition.

Really enjoyed this. Thank you!

Amazing presentation

What a great lecture!

That was brilliant!

Superb job!!

Great presentation

That lake is loaded with trout and salmon. You’d think they would have given a serious attempts at ice-fishing.

Regarding the survival rate of the Forlorn Hope, yes more women survived because the men had exhausted their fat reserves in the Wasatch, chopping and hacking roads.

Very good presentation! Question I would have asked is:"I read that a person retracing the Donner trail in the '20's, came across the Reed palace wagon abandoned near Pyramid lake, NV. is that true?

Better than the best documentary.

Fascinating 👍

Well, the description mentions ''minor factual errors'' but doesn't specify any of them... 😒

This was fantastic!

Really interesting! I wonder with all the non-human food...if they suffered from a type of high-protein starvation.

When I was four, my mother was asphyxiated by carbon monoxide. Wondering how that closed up cabin, burning those fires, may have contributed to brain deterioration

In a couple documentaries, it's been said that the guy James Reed stabbed (I can't remember his name) also hit Margaret Reed with the butt of his bullwhip prior to the stabbing. Is this something that's been disputed?

Me and my family just got back from Tahoe and it has a picture hanging by the front door that says reed I never noticed it

Did i say excellent presentation?!

Mr. Mark McLaughlin is Platinum.

Is there any evidence that Tamara Donner kept a diary account of this tragic event?

I was very interested in the donnner case, but unfortunately nothing was subtitled or dubbed in my language 😢... from everything I read about the Donner case, I understood that the mistake was the choice of direction to take 🤷

What a story! What a terrible thing. What inspiration!

Our American history !!!

Why not go straight down then left?

You made factual errors and you are happy with it, not me that ruins it

SPEED-learning the Donner incident..

That's a good story with lot of information but the dramatics, sound like a fairytale.

Ain’t gonna play Sun Cit-Tay yeah

I would go more I10 ish

Presentation was good, not so the questions.

I wish she would pronounce Nevada correctly

Great presentation. One thing: The preferred term for cannibalism, these days, is "Anthropophagy". Takes away some of the stigma and sensationalism and describes it more accurately

Theo Donner party não tem em português nem legendado😡

incredibile storia di tragedia 😖

Good analysis, what requires greater context is: Why some Native American tribes acted as they did? There is absolutely no context or explanation other than some tribal leaders/tribes were malevolent and others were not? hint, hint, start with land dispossession ...

The cannibalism makes the head lines, but in all actuality were they not just eating the natural dead ? Thats a far cry from killing and eating.

The Dahmer Party

nice , but seres the shock value, details of canibalistic stuff

This was not in the movie!

Like what he mentioned about the women working together and men working in competition when it came to survival. Also the way fat is burned by women and men.

What are the factual errors? Can you correct them in a comment?

"he wants to be the king of his own republic"...... thats not how it it works lol

You can't exactly buy something legitimately from a country that did not legitimately buy it from someone else. We can say it is part of America right now, but it was never legitimately purchased.

Boring presentation. There are much better ones.

It's a really good presentation, but 4:48 "Whoever is there now too bad for you because we're coming" He said it like it was nothing. Entitled Karen, now it's mine. What a shame!

incredibile storia di tragedia 😖