What was the Donner Party?
The Donner Party was a group of immigrants stricken by tragedy in the winter of 1846-47 on a 2,500-mile journey from Springfield, Illinois, to Sutter's Fort in California.
A strong blizzard trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountain range along what is now the California-Nevada border, where they resorted to cannibalism in an attempt to survive the harshest winter on record.
Source: PBS.
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