From November 20, 1846 to March 1, 1847, Irish immigrant Patrick Breen, a Donner party member, kept a diary of his ordeal in the mountains.

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24 дек. 2021 г. · Eighty-seven men, women and children entered the Sierra Nevada Mountains in October 1846. Known as the Donner Party, led by George Donner and ...

17 февр. 2022 г. · As the Donner Party fought to survive in the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains, four brave rescue missions ensured some traumatized members made ...

On April 15, 1846 the families of James Fraser Reed and George and Jacob. Donner, comprising 31 people in 9 wagons, left Springfield, Illinois for California.

The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest.

Donner party, group of American pioneers—named for the expedition's captain, George Donner—who became stranded en route to California in late 1846 ...

More than 155 years ago one of the worst tragedies in American travel occurred during the westward migration. The 1840s wagon train journey to California ...

Three years before the Gold Rush, 87 pioneers took a shortcut westward to California, only to get caught in the snows of the Sierra Nevada.

Who better than survivors knew the heart-rending circumstances of life and death in those mountain camps? Yet who can wonder that tenderest recollections and ...