Timeline
Lifetime:
1843 -
1922
Passed: ≈
102 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Eliza P. Donner Houghton
Books by Eliza P. Donner Houghton
Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
History
Memoir
Non-Fiction
Biography
19th century
History
Tragedy
Rescue
Childhood
Winter
Survival
Orphan
Memoir
Cannibalism
Snowstorm
Pioneer
Westward Expansion
American West
Donner Party
California Trail
Sierra Nevada
Eliza Donner Houghton
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although this...