Of the original 87 members, only 48 managed to survive!
Well, you have the obvious answer - eating the deceased members of their party to survive. Other attempts to survive included sending a group out to try to snow-shoe to find help in the Sacramento Valley / Sutter's Fort.
He was the last rescued, surviving member of the famous Donner Party, which traveled from the east to California and had to resort to cannibalism to survive.
There was a girl named Mary Donner in the Donner Party, and a woman named Margaret Reed.
George Donner was the leader
When one Donner dies, the family will eat the meat.
George Donner was the leader of a group of American settlers who were going to California. The Donner party became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847. Nearly half of the emigrants starved to death, and some of the others resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Edgar Donner has written: 'Family planning and rural development in Thailand' -- subject(s): Birth control, Rural development
Of the original 87 members, only 48 managed to survive!
Well, you have the obvious answer - eating the deceased members of their party to survive. Other attempts to survive included sending a group out to try to snow-shoe to find help in the Sacramento Valley / Sutter's Fort.
He was the last rescued, surviving member of the famous Donner Party, which traveled from the east to California and had to resort to cannibalism to survive.
That was the Donner Party. A group of pioneers who resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Donner is Rudolph's father.
There was a girl named Mary Donner in the Donner Party, and a woman named Margaret Reed.
Richard Donner goes by Dicky Donner, and Dick.
George Donner.
Clive Donner's birth name is Clive Stanley Donner.