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The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846-1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, mainly eating

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Donner party, group of American pioneers—named for the expedition's captain, George Donner—who became stranded en route to California in late 1846. The party was trapped by exceptionally heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada, and, when food ran out, some members of the group reportedly resorted to cannibalism of those already dead.

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The Donner Party was a group of 89 emigrants from Illinois who purportedly turned to cannibalism to survive after getting trapped by snowfall while on a westward journey in 1846. Forty-two members

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6. A Donner Party member murdered two people for use as food. During the "Forlorn Hope" expedition, the hiking party included a pair of Indians named Salvador and Luis, both of whom had joined

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But one person who stands out is Tamsen Donner. Tell us about her—and how women became, as you put it, "she-wolves" to save their kin. Throughout the many years that separate us from the

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The Tragic Story of the Donner Party. On April 16, 1846, nine covered wagons left Springfield , Illinois on the 2,500-mile journey to California, in what would become one of the greatest tragedies in the history of westward migration. "My father, with tears in his eyes, tried to smile as one friend after another grasped his hand in a last

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The five months the group spent trapped on the eastern side of the Sierra culminated in death and cannibalism. Of the 87 men, women and children in the Donner Party, 46 survived: two thirds of the

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Snow covers the Sierra Nevada mountain range at Donner Pass, the pass named for the ill-fated Donner Party that was stranded over the winter of 1846-1847 en route to the Sacramento Valley.

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A group of California-bound American emigrants known as the Donner Party, who after becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1847, resorted to cannibalism. Virginia Reed and the

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DONNER PARTY. The Donner party, setting out from Illinois, was among the thousands of people who attempted to cross the plains to California and Oregon in 1846. Half of the eighty-seven members of the Donner party were women and children. Poorly led, they dawdled along the way, quarreled viciously, and refused to help one another.

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From November 20, 1846 to March 1, 1847, Irish immigrant Patrick Breen, a Donner party member, kept a diary of his ordeal in the mountains. Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and their

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Paiute Sarah Winnemucca recalled that her tribe would have helped the Donner-Reed party of 1846, "...only my people were afraid of them." The California Trail was not a single trail. Although the Oregon Trail provided an established route from Missouri to Fort Bridger, the California Trail between Utah and the Sierra Nevada split into different routes.

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Donner party, Group of U.S. pioneers stranded en route to California in 1846. More than 80 immigrants led by George and Jacob Donner were trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the group set out to find help, while the others remained in crudely built camps. When their food ran out, some resorted to cannibalism of those who had

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The Donner Party Begins Its Journey To California. After a stop in Independence, Missouri to buy provisions and gather the full group, the Donner Party headed west on May 12, 1846. Led by two brothers, Jacob and George Donner, and an Irish businessman named James Reed, the party of 87 pioneers included men, women, and many young children.

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Patrick Breen was a member of the Donner Party and kept a diary of their ordeal during the winter of 1846-47. His description was first published as an article in a Nashville, TN newspaper in the spring of 1847 and later in a book published in 1879. We join his story about three weeks after the Donner Party arrived at the blocked pass:

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On October 20, 1846, an exceptionally early and heavy snowstorm dumped foot after foot of cement-like snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains, trapping 81 members of the ill-fated Donner Party, more

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The following timeline provides an almost day-to-day basic description of events directly associated with the 1846 Donner Party pioneers, covering the journey from Illinois to California—2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers), over the Great Plains, two mountain ranges, and the deserts of the Great Basin.. Following the timeline is a chronological list of deaths.

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In the next few months, half of the party died. Fifteen members of the party tried to cross the pass in December of 1846 to get help, but 12 days later, they turned to cannibalism to survive. They vowed only to restrain themselves from eating a relative's flesh. When rescue expeditions finally reached the the Donner Party the next spring

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Survivors and casualties. An exact accounting of the Donner Party is made difficult by deciding exactly when the Donner Party formed. The Party did not exist when its members crossed the Missouri River in May, 1846. George Donner was elected Captain of the Party at the Little Sandy River on July 20, 1846, but several people joined the Party later, at Fort Bridger and in the Wasatch Mountains.

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7. More Donner Party men died than women. Males succumbed at a higher rate than females and also died sooner. Mothers in the caravan made every effort to keep their families alive, but the younger

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By. Robert McNamara. Updated on June 30, 2019. The Donner Party was a group of American settlers heading to California who became stranded in heavy snows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846. Isolated in horrific conditions, about half of the original group of nearly 90 people died of starvation or exposure.

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Mary Tamsen Newlin is the great-great-granddaughter of Donner party leader George Donner. A 71-year-old retired schoolteacher living in Santa Barbara, Newlin has had a lifelong curiosity about her

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The Donner Party in the Sierra Nevadas. Philip D Klipa/Shutterstock. The Donner Party had finally made it to the Sierra Nevada mountains, but because of the many delays they had faced, they got there as the fierce winter weather started to appear. According to History, heavy snowfall on October 28, 1846, blocked the trail the party needed to