https://museumhack.com/donner-party/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://museumhack.com/donner-party/#comment-10487 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:05:18 +0000 https://museumhack.com/?p=15859#comment-10487 The “guy named William Boggs” is actually the ex-governor(6th) of Missouri Lilburn W. Boggs. He took over as train master when Russell decided to make better time without the train in tow. Boggs was on his way to California after surviving an assassination attempt by the Mormons a few years earlier in pay-back for expelling them from Missouri.

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