Module 11 of 22 · Text
Donner Party
- 300 migrants in 60 wagons
- travelled may 1846-november
- leaders- donner brothers
- why migrated west- stat new lives in california (discovery of gold)
Journey
- rivers crossed
- desert
- rough land
why failed
- july 1846 rocky mountians broke up group
- 80 migrants tried shortcut
- route not marked hard to follow
- half left because they had eaten their dead