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Donner Party Descendants | Facebook. Public group. ·. 15 members. Join group. About. It's estimated that over 25,000 descendents are alive today because of 48 people who refused die in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846-1847. This group is for those direct descendents of the Donner Party.
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.
Daily diary entries about the Donner Party with maps and pictures.
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.
8 mar 2021 · The original Forlorn Hope members had set out from the larger Donner Party—a group of emigrants traveling from the Midwest to California by covered wagon across rugged terrain—in a...
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.
3 kwi 2013 · Discover Donner Party Artifacts in Truckee, California: Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
