Discusses this pivotal event in the lead-up to the American colonies' break with Great Britain and the tense atmosphere in Boston due to various new laws and impositions on the colonists by England.
Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.
Recounts the events leading up to the colonists' defiant act against the British known as the Boston Tea Party, which ultimately climaxed in the American Revolution.