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The members of the Donner Party are listed both by family or group (first table) and by individual (second table) below. For more information about Donner Party members, click on the individual or group names.
4 lut 2008 · Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her ...
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.
2 paź 2024 · Most of the female deaths were among the youngest and oldest, who were already doomed by their age. Among those party members aged 5 to 39--the ones whose ages left them some reasonable chance of survival--half the men but only 5 percent of the women died. The dates of death provide deeper insight.
During the summer of 1846, the 87 members of the Donner Party travelled an untested route between Fort Bridger, Wyoming, and the Humboldt River, Nevada.
The Donner Party were 81 American Pioneers.They set out for California in a wagon train and became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846. Some of these immigrants resorted to cannibalism to survive. Families and Members. Donner Family.
You can read what happened to the members of the Donner Party, those who survived and those who didn’t. You can read about the salvage operations, and the remains of the Alder Creek campsites and the Lake Cabins.
