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Daily diary entries about the Donner Party with maps and pictures.
3 kwi 2013 · Discover Donner Party Artifacts in Truckee, California: Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
18 sie 1996 · The post now is held by Peter Breen, great-great grandson of Donner Party member Patrick Breen. The Breen and Graves families held reunions in conjunction with the event. Family historians praised their ancestors during programs, calling them heroes for their courage.
1 lip 2017 · Did members of the Donner Party eat each other to survive? And what evidence do we have? There are different types of cannibalism; ritualistic, sacrificial, and survival cannibalism.
5 mar 2010 · 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.
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.
There are no known descendants Dorothea Wolfinger of the Donner Party. Her son Albert died unmarried, as far as is known. Her daughter Rosa married Conrad Schuler in 1875 and in turn had a daughter, Rosa Schuler, who died unmarried in Mendocino County, California, in 1945.
