In a 2006 article exploring recent archaeological discoveries at the Donner campsite -- which did not definitively determine cannibalism or its absence -- the New Yorker explained that Tamsen ...

Group of four retraces Donner Party rescue expedition. Serving Lake Tahoe. News. Business; ... The four-member team would grind out more than 30 miles across foothills to reach the first campsite, ...

Whatever the source of the coins, there was general agreement that it wasn't the Donner Money — a legendary cache believed to be buried at yet another campsite for Donner Party survivors. Here's ...

Whatever the source of the coins, there was general agreement that it wasn't the Donner Money — a legendary cache believed to be buried at yet another campsite for Donner Party survivors. Here's ...

In 1846, a group of 87 settlers on their way to California, led by George Donner, got caught in the Sierra Mountains by the worst snowstorm in 30 years.… ...

Fifteen members of the original 81-member Donner Party left camp west of Truckee, California, along the current Interstate 80 on Dec. 16, 1846, but only seven — two men and five women ...

Snow covers the Sierra Nevada mountain range at Donner Pass, the pass named for the ill-fated Donner Party that was stranded over the winter of 1846-1847 en route to the Sacramento Valley. James L ...

Donner as in the ill fated Donner Party at the base of the final scramble to Donner Peak is *** marker for the immigrant trail, Truckee River route. The same area where the Donner Party became ...