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They Didn’t Turn Back — History Knows Why

The telegram arrived at ten past eight on the morning of November 14th, 1896, and no one who read it felt alarmed. It was addressed to the Superintendent of the Donner Summit Weather Station, a small outpost perched at seven thousand feet in the Sierra Nevada, and it reported that a low-pressure system was moving inland from the Pacific. The language was technical, measured, the sort of bulletin that arrived twice weekly during winter months. The superintendent, a man named Morris Calloway, read it twice, folded it into his logbook, and returned to his breakfast. Outside, the sky was clear. The temperature hovered just above freezing. There was no wind.