The Donner Party’s leadership fell for this cruel hoax and took the cutoff, a rash and deadly decision that caused the pioneers to abandon many of their wagons which had fallen to pieces along the ...

Most people know what happened to the Donner Party, a group of settlers led by George Donner and James F. Reed, once they reached Alder Creek, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Members ...

A pair of backcountry endurance athletes who became obsessed with the Donner Party spent the last seven years researching and exploring the Sierra on foot to try to pinpoint the final 90-mile (145 ...

Snow covers the Sierra Nevada mountain range at Donner Pass, the pass named for the ill-fated Donner Party that was stranded over the winter of 1846-1847 en route to the Sacramento Valley.

Donner Party cannibalism -- it's still ... there is no evidence of cannibalism among the 84 members of the Donner Party who were trapped by a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the ...

Four wheelers take a trip through the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the Applegate-Lessen Immigrant Trail, best known for the 1846 Donner-party tragedy. - 4 Wheel Drive & SUV Magazine ...

“Ninety percent of the time, the Donner Party would have made it,” Mark McLaughlin, a historian of the Sierra Nevada and author of The Donner Party: Weathering the Storm, tells me ...

Tuesday afternoon weather forecast - Mar. 21, 2023 03:45. No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party when the pioneers were trapped atop the Sierra Nevada for months and ...

RENO, Nev. – No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party when the pioneers were trapped atop the Sierra Nevada for months and dozens died near Lake Tahoe in the winter of ...