![]() ![]() “But most people don’t understand why they got there so late.” “A lot of people understand what happened to the Donner-Reed Party in the Sierra Nevadas,” said Chad Douglas, a spokesman for the BLM. Led by Michael Knight, a Bureau of Land Management historic trails intern and a recent graduate from Utah State University’s landscape architecture program, the team was tasked by the BLM to craft a campaign to introduce the lesser-known side of the Donner-Reed story. They also relate stories from the journals of the Donner-Reed Party to make history come alive for other young people. The documentary, which was filmed in Tooele County, follows the experiences of the three young professionals as they retrace the exact trail of the Donner-Reed Party, including the so-called 90-mile waterless stretch across the Salt Flats. Last week, the interns officially released the fruits of this past summer’s labors - a 30-minute documentary titled “Hastings Cutoff: Retracing the Footsteps of the Donner-Reed Party.” ![]() More than 150 years later, a trio of interns endeavored to recreate the experience for themselves, hiking the Tooele County outback for two days with an amateur film crew in tow. In 1846, the ill-fated Donner-Reed Party blazed a trail through the Wasatch Mountains to take the Hastings Cutoff over Tooele County’s salt desert, and in the process crossed some of the Earth’s most formidable terrain.
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