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		<title>My Research Experience on Donner Party  Survivor/Rescuer, William H. Eddy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in the Santa Clara Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter, April 2023 On Being a History Detective: My Research Experience on Donner Party Survivor/Rescuer, William H. Eddy  Call it fate or destiny, five years ago I became an ardent and nationally known Donner Party scholar thanks to survivor/rescuer William Henry Eddy (1814-1859). [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Stop an Avalanche</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To Stop an Avalanche &#160; place a bomb below it, and I’m not talking a metaphorical one, a real nasty bomb like you’d see in a Sam Peckinpah picture starring Steve McQueen. Aim at the target several loads of dynamite or train a Howitzer high to a leeward slab mocking the wind. Slice it off [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remembering the Legacy of William H. Eddy, Donner Party Hero, at Oak Hill Memorial Park in San Jose</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[William H. Eddy, survivor and chief rescuer of the ill-fated Donner Party (1846-1847), traveled far in life as well as in death—a feat few experienced or even contemplated in antebellum America. Married to Eleanor with a toddler, Jimmy, and an infant daughter, Margaret, Eddy decided to uproot his young family from Belleville, Illinois, a suburb [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tax Season Tuesday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Osborn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winner: Honorable Mention in the 2020 Carolina Woman Magazine Writing Contest After one kid brushes her teeth, tucks in by 9:10 p.m., I rush to clean four dishes before my tax accountant husband returns to our unmopped kitchen at 11:07 on April 13 while the guinea pig contemplates tough decisions: Should I eat hay, pellets [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Eleanor Eddy: An Unsung Hero</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Osborn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While her husband, William “Will” Eddy (1816-1859) chases a 900-pound grizzly bear, puffs his pipe, fells trees for lake lodging, tells very tall and ribald tales, shoots errant game, or makes midnight plans with Charles Stanton to walk across the Sierras in the dead of winter, Eleanor Priscilla Roach Eddy (1821-1847)  worries how long she [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Story Behind My Song, “William Eddy”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 20:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[William H. Eddy (1816-1859) was a carriage maker from Belleville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, who became known as one of the heroes of the Donner Party because he led the Forlorn Hope group of 15 over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a journey of 80 miles, in mid-December 1846. Unfortunately, only he and six [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not the Weaker Sex: Covid-19 and Donner Party Starvation Favor Women</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Osborn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Based on the data we have from 13 states and New York City, plus China, Italy, and South Korea, more men than women are dying from Covid-19. The CDC hasn’t yet tracked the numbers for the entire U.S., but the limited data still tells us what many women already know: women are more likely to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not Today, Death, Not Today</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Osborn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder,” says George Washington to Alexander Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. No truer words can be applied to the many fighting Covid-19 or t to the Donner Party survivors fighting death at Starved Camp in 1847. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has been broadcasting Cuomo Prime Time from his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What the Donner Party Can Teach Us About Dying in the Age of Covid-19</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Osborn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the Covid-19 crisis tears up the fabric of American society and President Trump acknowledges 100,000 to 240,000 Americans may die, we see one truth emerge: no one wants to die alone. Unfortunately, because of the contagious nature of this disease that has no known cure, family members are prevented from being admitted to their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Cursed the Donner Party?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Osborn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As an American people and as American citizens we grow the most through hardship and through learning from our mistakes. This is certainly true now in the midst of a global pandemic. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily noontime COVID-19 briefings are must-see TV because he’s dealing with the facts, doesn’t mince words, and offers nuggets of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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