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You can find details about the Donner Party on the Wikipedia page devoted to it. You can also receive an introductory lesson about the Donner Party provided on the PBS website.
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Why the Donner Party was also called the Dinner Family?
When one Donner dies, the family will eat the meat.
What is the name of one of the Reed's oxen in the Donner Party?
George
Who was banished from the donner party?
one person who was banished from the Donner party was James Reed because he stabbed and killed a man in his wagon train because was abusing his oxen.
What mountains did the donner party have to cross?
There was only one major mountain range that the Donner Party had to cross through. The Rocky Mountain. The Rockys caused a lot of trouble for the people going out to west. The Donner Party took off late from Independence, MO, so the Donner Party got stuck in the Rockys. That's what caused the Donner Party to become so famous and the number of people going to the west decreased dramatically. Then the Gold Rush started and the numbers went way up.
Did the people in the donner eat died people?
No one really knows but people think that members of the Donner Party ate each when they were absolutely starved.
Where did the Donner party work in Illinois?
The Donner party left from Springfield, IL. James Frazier Reed was born in Ireland and had done lead mining, farming, and cabinet making. George Donner had one crop on a farm in Texas but did not like it there so he moved to the Springfield, IL area and married Eustace Tanner.
Did the Oregon trail resort to cannibalism?
Yes there was cannibalism on the organ trail. One group who resorted to it was the Donner Party
What trail did the Donner Party take?
The group left too late in the spring, so when they were getting into the mountains the winter snows hit. They were stuck.
What disasters did the donner party face?
The big one was Cannibalism! the party was isolated by bad weather ( Snow storms) was running out of supplies, and things took a turn for the worse.
What is Rudolph's fathers name?
Donner is Rudolph's father.
What did the donner party have to do to live?
Well one of the them had to leave her two children (one 4 years old and the other one 8 years old) to go over the Rocky Mountains. The children did survive but they did suffer enough for a children that young and little. Also, according to some historians, the Donner party had to eat the dead people. Not all historians believe that, but some do.
How did the story of The donner Party help to strike down the myth of frontier idealism?
The Donner Party revealed what could happen, if things went wrong. Previous stories were always about the wonderful things that could happen when settlers went west, such as adventure and the possibility of finding one's destiny. The story of the Donner Party showed the dark side. The tale of cannibalism, and the loss of nearly half the party, took much of the glamour away from going west.
