Hastings Cutoff was a supposed shortcut on the route to California. It was proposed to the pioneers by an unreliable guide named Lansford Hastings. In reality, the Cutoff was 125 miles longer than the established trail, and it took the Donner Party through some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Great Basin.
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