1. Research and report on others such as Tabitha Brown who traveled to Oregon or California during the 1840s. Include their ...

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

The Donner Party used tea cups and other tableware and ate domestic and wild animals while stranded in the Sierra Nevadas during 1846-47, but all group members may not have resorted to cannibalism.

The snow in the passes through the Sierra Nevada can be more than 30 feet deep. For the wagons of the Donner party, a group of 81 westwardbound pioneers who were stopped by a blizzard at the gateway ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This Sunday’s books pages include a review of the memoir ‘Searching for ...

In the spring of 1846, a caravan of pioneers left Independence, Missouri, and began the long trek toward California. The group mostly comprised of families who hoped to start a better life out West.

The nineteenth-century survivors of the infamous Donner Party told cautionary tales of starvation and cannibalism, greed and self-sacrifice. But not until now are we learning why the survivors ...