Donner Party - Wikipedia
The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada .
The Reed Family - California Trail Interpretive Center
The Reed Family were members of the Donner Party, one of the most tragic stories on the California Trail. They experienced difficulties on the trail including, following a cutoff, which took much longer than they expected, murder, lack of leadership, and bad packing, forcing them to become stranded in the winter.
James F. Reed - Wikipedia
James Frazier Reed (November 14, 1800 – July 24, 1874) was an Irish-American businessman, soldier and pioneer in the American West, notable for being an organizing member of the ill-fated Donner Party emigration to California in 1846.
Donner party | History, Facts, & Survivors | Britannica
5 天之前 · Donner party James Frazier Reed and Margaret Keyes Reed, survivors of the Donner party. The fertile farmlands of central California drew a steady stream of settlers in the 1840s, and in the spring of 1846 several families from Springfield, Illinois, joined the westward migration.
The Donner-Reed Party - California Trail Interpretive Center
Suffering from a combination of bad timing, false trail information, and unforeseen weather, this large party of 89 people from both the Donner and Reed families would arrive in California, but only after losing more than half of their members.
Here's What Happened To The Survivors Of The Donner Party
2020年3月2日 · Among the group was Illinois businessman James Reed, the Murphy family, the Breen family, and the Donner family, also Illinois based. A deadly combination of travel delays and difficult terrain stranded the caravan of now 79 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains — where snowfalls reached 22 feet high.
The Tragic Story of the Donner Party – Legends of America
The Donner Party wasted no time in administering their own justice. Though member Lewis Keseberg favored hanging for James Reed, the group voted to banish him instead. After leaving his family, Reed was last seen riding off to the west with Walter Herron.
Donner Party ‑ Survivors, Timeline & Facts - HISTORY
2010年3月5日 · The Donner Party was a group of 89 emigrants from Illinois who purportedly turned to cannibalism to survive after getting trapped by snowfall while on a westward journey in 1846.
Survivors and casualties - Donner Party Diary
James Reed was the only adult survivor of the Donner Party to publish an extensive account, beginning with J. Merryman’s newspaper article based on Reed’s notes in the December 9, 1847 Illinois Journal, and Reed’s own article The Snow-Bound, Starved Emigrants of 1846 published in the Pacific Rural Press in 1871. Reed died in 1874.
The Ghoulish Tale of the Donner Party - U.S. News & World …
2008年2月19日 · James F. Reed and his wife, Margret W. Keyes Reed were survivors of the tragic Donner Party. The Reed family was one of two families who survived the ordeal intact. The snow in the...