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Joseph A. King -- author, historian, speaker, college instructor -- the leading authority on the Donner Party until his death in 1996 at the age of 71. He was an advisor and participant in Donner Party films for The American Experience and The Real West series on television. He was also a leading authority on Irish emigration to rural America and Canada. He authored seven books and over fifty articles in journals in Canada, Ireland, England, and the United States.
