Donner Party

• By: Jadelyn Slimmer
• Mrs. Steiner
• Language Arts/ 7th hour

Beginning

• April 14, 1846
• Parents, merchants, farmers, and children
• Springfield, Ohio to California
• Land grants and a new start
• 83 emigrants

Problems

• The young, old, and very sick
• Shortage of food
• Shoestrings, elk, buffalo meat, and cow

Journey

• Wagons pulled by ox
• 18-20 miles per day
• Indian Tribe killing

Trapped

• Half went to Hastings cutoff
• Stuck in snow
• February 18, 1847
• Rescuers faced the same

Death

• Cannibalism
• Frostbite
• Vision blindness

Now

• Donner party Trail
• Donner Memorial State Park
• Rock by Trukee Lake

Short Term Effects

• Got stuck in Snow
• Rescued on February 18, 1847
• Starved to death

Long Term Effect

• Hastings Cutoff
• Why we know now
• Added 125 miles

I learned that it's harder than you think to get food back in the 1800's.