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Article: Republican Party, Democratic Party? How about the Donner Party?(Brief Article)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Lessons on choosing your leader wisely
Election Day is near...would you pick the best leader if your life depended on it?
Not necessarily. Consider the case of the Donner Party. Those on the pioneer wagon train had a clear choice between two dramatically different potential leaders. The one they chose ended up guiding many to their deaths in the Sierras, where some had to resort to cannibalism.
That leader was George Donner, an affable, grandfatherly, 62-year-old one-time Hoosier farmer. "Grandpa George," as his fellow pioneers called him, had lived in Jefferson County and outside Greensburg before moving to Illinois, where his ill-fated journey ...