'The Hunger' is inspired by the Donner Party, in which American pioneers resorted to cannibalism to avoid starvation. A 3.5-star book review.

Much has been said of the Donner Party, much of it not good. Here’s a chance to hike the terrain and learn what really happened during the pioneers’ horrific winter spent in the Sierra during ...

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 ...

All except the Donner party, that is. In late October, the newly arrived emigrants were shocked to see James Reed emerge from the wilderness to tell the unfortunate tale of his fellow travelers.

The Donner Party spurned the advice of a mountain man they met, who told them to stick to the trail west and avoid an alternative route. David A. Price reviews “The Best Land Under Heaven: ...

Donner Party cabins: The Murphy cabin site, with the smoke-stained boulder, is along Donner Creek on the short, signed nature trail. The Schallenberger/Breen cabin site is next to the Pioneer ...

They had endured months of cold and hunger. The Donner-Reed party had set out for California in 1846 in a journey that normally took four to six months. But after trying a new route, called ...

Few know the part of the Donner Party story that encompasses the heroic Forlorn Hope party. The Forlorn Hope party The lure of new lives, land and opportunities was strong in 1846 and the Donner ...

When most people hear the legend of the Donner Party, they learn that a group of early American pioneers got trapped while crossing the mountains and resorted to cannibalism to survive, but ...

Sensational stories of the Donner Party spread across the nation in 1847, “this group of people [who] had originally set out to civilize what they saw as a barbaric land . . . civilizers ...