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Noun: Donner Pass
  1. A mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died

Type of: mountain pass, notch, pass

Part of: CA, Calif., California, Golden State, High Sierra, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains

Encyclopedia: Donner Pass