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Daily diary entries about the Donner Party with maps and pictures.
24 gru 2021 · James L. Amos/Getty Images. The rescue party left Sutter's Fort on Jan. 31, 1847, and found the survivors at Donner Lake on Feb. 18. Forty-six starving, half-dead people made it out alive.
18 sie 1996 · DONNER DESCENDANTS LEAVE FEUDS IN PAST. More than 300 Donner Party descendants revisited the scene of their ancestors' worst terrors Saturday to observe the 150th anniversary of their tragic westward trek.
14 wrz 2024 · Donner party, group of American pioneers stranded en route to California in 1846. The group was named for the expedition’s captain, George Donner. It was widely circulated that members of the party resorted to cannibalism after their food ran out, giving the party its lasting notoriety.
3 kwi 2013 · The small collection contains books, maps and personal items that once belonged to members of the Donner Party, as well as a replica of the doll young Patty Reed smuggled to safety in her...
Bill Oudegeest. The Donner Party Rescue Expeditions: the 2022 Reprise. Here, for the first time in Heirloom history, we have an editorial. Last year we spent a lot of valuable Heirloom space on the reprise of the Forlorn Hope (see the December, '20 and January, '21 Heirlooms). Now we come to 2022.
2 mar 2020 · In the spring of 1847, the last rescue party finally reached the desperate remains of the Donner Party. Starving and driven to cannibalism after snows trapped their caravan in a snowy Sierra Nevada mountain pass, the survivors relayed to their rescuers the horrific stories of their ordeal.
