Donner Party
American Experience offers the gripping tale of the Donner Party. High in the high Sierra Nevadas in the winter of 1846, the worst winter ever recorded in the high Sierras, tragedy struck their caravan. Merely half of the party would come out alive.
Donner Party
Express family unit journals, newspaper accounts and interviews with historians and descendants of the party, the film recreates the Donner Party‘s currently legendary journey.
In June of 1846, along with thousand of others, George and Jacob Donner and James Frazier Reed led their families west out of Springfield, Illinois, to the “Promised Land” in California, two thousand miles away. Theirs was a prosperous caravan that would eventually increase to 87 men, women and children. They packed hugh wagons (human being, two stories high), took lots of food, hired servants, even sewed $10,000 in bank notes between the covers of a quilt. When family unit leaders made the fateful decision to take a untried short diminish to beat the coming winter, merely half of them would show alive.
What began because a trek to the western paradise became a terrifying tale of misery, death, madness and cannibalism. Whereas there was besides extraordinary audacious, since survivors made their technique to California, after enduring the worst winter ever recorded in the High Sierras. Straight family circle journals, newspaper accounts and interviews with historians and descendants of the party, the film recreates the Donner Party‘s currently legendary journey.
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