Smithsonian Magazine1d
Donner Party Survivors Were Rescued on This Day in 1847 After Weeks of Frigid Conditions, Starvation and—Eventually—Cannibalism
Bad luck and poor decisions turned the already dangerous trek from Missouri to California into a fatal affair for roughly ...
U.S. News & World Report6y
Donner Memorial State Park and Emigrant Trail Museum
The Donner Memorial State Park and Emigrant Trail Museum honor ... winter of 1846 to 1847. The party (originally consisting of nearly 90 emigrants) was en route to California when their wagon ...