The Dark Side of the Oregon Trail | The Donner Party Part 1

If you ask most people if they would ever turn to cannibalism, most people say no. Under the right circumstances, that answer may change. For many families in the Donner Party, the Sierra Nevada Mountains turned that answer to yes.

This is part 1 of the Donner Party Story.

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Sources

• https://www.history.com/news/donner-party-route-cannibalism
• https://www.cherylannestapp.com/post/virginia-reed-murphy
• https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-donner-party
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Backenstoe-3
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4717070/Donner-Party-pioneers-1846-forced-CANNIBALISM.html
• https://www.kcra.com/article/retro-find-lumberjack-day-2004/62385559
• https://www.peweevalleyhistory.org/edwin-bryant.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansford_Hastings
• https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/What-happened-to-Donner-Party-survivors-16714121.php
• https://donnerpartydiary.com/
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Trudeau-260
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_River
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truckee_River
• PBS
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma_Creek
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Lake