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18 sie 1996 · 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. Unlike the hard-luck pioneers, the descendants enjoyed good weather, abundant food and cordial relations at California Trail Days '96 and the Donner Party Sesquicentennial.
Daily diary entries about the Donner Party with maps and pictures.
That's the question at the heart of this fast-paced game of social deduction in which cannibals and pioneers face off in a fight for survival. Set in the winter of 1846, players are members of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train, stranded atop a mountain with no food.
24 gru 2021 · A brutal winter storm descended on them, blocking the pass and trapping the Donner Party near today's Donner Lake. Some families set up camp while others donned makeshift snowshoes to try...
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. Forty-two...
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...
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...
