According to Above the Law, one major New York law firm bit off more than they could chew when hiring a summer associate.

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

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.

TRAVEL DONNER -- Monument to emigrants at Donner Memorial State Park. The figures are meant to be generic pioneers, rather than specific members of the Donner Party.

TRUCKEE (CBS / AP) — A pair of backcountry endurance athletes who became obsessed with the Donner Party spent the last seven years researching and exploring the Sierra on foot to try to pinpoint ...

The Donner party story, splashed across newspaper headlines as soon as the survivors limped off the mountain, began in April 1846 when George Donner, a successful farmer in his 60s, his wife ...

This map charts the Donner Party’s route from Independence, Missouri to Sutter’s Fort, California.

Allan Wolf talks about why he wrote 'The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep,' a finalist for the Times Book Prize, and ponders the best way to eat people.

Most everyone has heard of the Donner Party and the salacious stories of cannibalism and the wrong turns, bad decisions, dissension, mendacity, murder, accident and unbelievable hardship.

Allan Wolf Allan Wolf’s novel in verse, “The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices From the Donner Party,” is a finalist for the 2020 Times Book Prize in young adult literature.