The Donner Party

The Donner Party

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Picture of family in wagons The Donner party stranded Picture of Donner party in storm

Families in wagons as they traveled west.

The Donner party stranded in the Sierra Nevada Range, 1847.

The Donner party in a snow storm which lead to many dying and starving. The dead would later provide food for the small amount of people still alive.

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