2. Imagine you have been stranded along with the Donner Party. Choose a member of either the Donner or the Reed family, and write a journal entry from that person?s point of view. Read your entry ...

On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive during a Sierra Nevada snowstorm. The information below originally ...

And also there’s a question of motivation. James Reed, who is one of the leaders of the Donner party, which is sometimes called in the historical record the Reed party or the Reed/Donner party ...