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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.
Which Wagon train was killed with few survivors in the sierra nevadas?
The Fancher Party.The Fancher Party wagon train killed and has very little survivors. This happened in Sierra Nevada.
How far did the Donner Party travel?
Three families, George Donner's, Jacob Donner's, and James Reed's, left Springfield, Illinois, on April 14, 1846. On May 19 they joined a large wagon train in Kansas. This train was led by William Russell. It broke up into smaller parties. The Donner Party didn't actually exist until July 19, 1846, when a new wagon train was organized and George Donner was elected the captain. This happened near South Pass in Wyoming.
Who was in the donnor party?
The Donner Party were a group of settlers who headed to California in a wagon train. A series of unfortunate circumstances led to them becoming stranded in Sierra Nevada the winter of 1846. In order to survive, some members had to resort to cannibalism of the dead to survive.
Is it true that there are 81 people in the Donner Party?
Yes about that number, there were intermittent drop-outs and people who were using the wagon train to get to outposts, etc and these should not be confused with actual casualties. about 48 people survived the incident.
Who resorted to cannibalism to survive in the wilderness?
I believe you are referring to the Donner Party. This group was headed to California via wagon train but due to a late start, got snowed in somewhere (near Truckee Lake) in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
What year did the Donner Party set out?
The Donners and Reeds left Springfield, Illinois, on April 14, 1846. They left Independence, Missouri, on May 12, 1846. However, the Donner Party didn't actually exist until July 19, 1846, when George Donner was elected captain of a newly-formed wagon train.
What books are written about the Donner party tragedy?
Here a several (from Amazon.com): # The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro (Hardcover - Mar 29, 1999) # Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart (Paperback - Jan 30, 1992) # The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47 by Frank Mullen (Paperback - Sep 1997) # Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party by Rachel K. Laurgaard and Elizabeth Sykes Michaels (Paperback - Aug 1989) # The Archaeology Of The Donner Party (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities) by Donald L Hardesty (Paperback - Oct 18, 2005) # Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party by David Lavender (Hardcover - April 1996) # The Donner Party (Disasters in History) by Welvaert, Scott R., Barnett III, and Charles (Paperback - Sep 1, 2006) # The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds : The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 (My Name Is America) by Rodman Philbrick (Hardcover - Nov 1, 2001) # 28 Used & new from $2.49 # The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (Paperback - April 25, 2008) # The Donner Party: Weathering the Storm by Mark McLaughlin (Perfect Paperback - Jan 10, 2007) # Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party by Peter R. Limburg (Hardcover - Oct 1998)
What is a wagonload?
A wagonload is an amount that can be loaded onto a wagon, the individual load of a single wagon, or a type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations.
Who participated in the Donner party?
The Donner Party consisted of 87 members who left Missouri on 12 May of 1846 bound for California who were trapped by snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Noteworthy members of the Donner Party included George (aged 62) and Tamsen (aged 42) Donner and their five daughters, Jacob Donner, (the older brother of George) his wife and seven children, James and Margaret Reed, Margaret's mother, Sarah Keyes and their two daughters, Patty and Virginia, a hired girl and a few male employees. There was Patrick and Peggy Breen and their seven children, Mr and Mrs Wolfinger, two fellow travelers called Spitzer and Reinhardt and their driver Dutch Charley Burger and Mr Hardkoop who accompanied them. Patrick Dolan traveled with the Breen family. At Black Forks Donner hired a replacement wagon driver and the McCuthen family and Jean Baptiste Trudeau (aged 16) joined the wagon train. There was a tubuclar man named Luke Halloran who was passed from family to family and grew sicker every day. Lewis Keseberg, his wife and daughter, a wagon train gemeral animal handeler named simply "Antonio", the Eddy family, and the widow Levinah Murphy with her clan of 13 round out the Donner Party. Sarah Keyes passed away before the disaster in what is now known as Donner Pass and a baby son was born to the Keseberg family along the trail.
Who invented a wagon train?
In 1749 the first wagon train was invented.
What are the release dates for Wagon Train - 1957 The Wagon Train Mutiny 6-1?
Wagon Train - 1957 The Wagon Train Mutiny 6-1 was released on: USA: 19 September 1962
