Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
Author: first_name: Eliza P. Donner
last_name: Houghton
Language: English
Year: 1911

The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although this aspect of the tragedy has become synonymous with the Donner Party in the popular imagination, it actually was a minor part of the episode.
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The author was about 4 at the time. The first part of the book accounts the tragic journey and resc