On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive during a Sierra Nevada snowstorm. The information below originally appeared ...
Capital Books Press publishes two landmark survivor accounts for the 180th anniversary of America’s most haunting pioneer disaster 80 years after one of America’s most devastating pioneer tragedies, ...
Sarah Murphy Foster sat by a campfire in the early winter of 1847, grieving the death of her brother, Lemuel. Foster was a member of the Donner Party, a band of American pioneers who had set out for ...
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