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. This...
Marian Calabro The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party 192 pp. Clarion 4/99 ISBN 0-395-86610-3 20.00 g (Young Adult) Virginia Reed was nearly thirteen in the fateful spring of 1846, when her family joined the families of George and Jacob Donner for their...
DONNER PASS, Calif. -- The gruesome story of what happened to a group of pioneers here 150 years ago still draws 50,000 people a year to this spot near Lake Tahoe, where they walk the same land, view the same impenetrable High Sierra, and...
As the search for Steve Fossett dragged into its ninth day Tuesday, experts said they doubted the millionaire adventurer could have survived more than a week in the rugged desert since his plane vanished.While the resourceful aviator could scratch water, food and shelter from the...
Colorado's mountains have a history of overpowering winter visitors, dating all the way back more than 150 years ago to Zebulon Pike and John Fremont, even though the latter had Kit Carson as a guide.The infamous Alferd Packer, stuck in deep snow near Slumgullion Pass...
