Donner Info

Donner Info

On a journey to a better life in California, the infamous Donner party, met sorrow at every turn. Before their journey began, they encountered a shortcut discovered by Hastings. Like any other normal person, they decided to take the easier route that unfortunately led to tragedy.
Donnrs Sickness
The story of the Donner party is a story filled with courageous people who faced many hardships in a struggle to survive. They were intrepid to a point, but they were also very foolish in some aspects of their existence. The fact that they were inexperienced when it came to travel and the great out doors is the best example of their foolishness. Why would anyone venture out in the wilderness with very little knowledge of how to survive in the cold? They left at a very bad time of the year as well. They lost a lot of their supplies when their animals weren’t properly secured and they ran away. They had no sense of tracking so they couldn’t track down their lost animals to retrieve their lost goods. For anyone to survive in the severe weather conditions as well as facing starvation and malnutrition they must be fearless. To put themselves in that situation as well as some of the other things they did were very stupid. The Donner story is used in almost every story about the journey people traveled trying to get to the west. To resort to cannibalism for survival is by far the worst thing anyone could ever do. To actually defile the sacredness of someone’s dead body is just so horrible to think about.

Forty-six survivors out of an original 87, reached California starving, tired, and traumatized for life from the experience they had just been through. A year of suffering was spent on a time that was thought to have been only a few months of easy traveling on a shortcut routed by a man named Lance Hatings.The journey began on May 12th from Springfield Illinois. A train of nine wagons, filled with members of the Donner and Reed families, set out in hopes of reaching...