Support your answer with examples from the film. 5. How did people in the 1840s view the American West? How did the story of the Donner Party help to strike down the myth of frontier idealism?

Baby Isabella, who remembered nothing of the ordeal, lived until 1935, the last survivor of the Donner party. “came to this place on the 31st of last month that ... snow about 5 ½ feet or ...