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dying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_and_Martin_handcart_companies

Thirteen people in one company died just climbing Rocky Ridge in a snowstorm on October 23, 1856. They'd left Omaha on the trek west in August, nearly three months later than they were told they should have. By early October in Wyoming they'd cut food rations to 12 ounces a day, and they cut luggage to 10 lbs per person to lighten the carts, dumping a lot of clothing and blankets. They lost more than 200 people out of less than a thousand in those two companies.

And many of the people on that trek were children. Tragic. And apparently no one was held responsible.

I'd never heard of the handcart pioneers before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers

I'd wondered why YouTube searches for Rocky Ridge were turning up videos of young Mormons reenacting that trek (in good weather, at least).