DONNER PARTY By Candon Hatalla DONNER PARTY

• The Donner Party was a group of two family's, the Reed family and the Donner family. They were traveling west to . WHO WAS THE DONNER PARTY?

• The Reed family and Donner family. • The Donner Party was group of families wanting to travel west to start a new life.

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• was leading the two families westward along with Lansford Hasting

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• Their plan was to start a new life Lansford Hasting wanted to move to California because he wanted to be president of California

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• The Donner Party left from Springfield Illinois and they wanted to travel to California to start a new life.

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• The Donner Party was leaving Springfield in April 1846

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• When the Donner Party set out to start their journey, they left to late and were stuck in the middle of a bad snow storm

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• When they were on the trail, they had to eat there mules, and all of their food that they were saving

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• On the they wanted to take a shortcut which was a bad idea • During there time taking the short cut their wagon broke and they had to set up camp • During the tie period that they had to camp out a huge snow storm made them stranded EXTRA DETAIL

• The snow storm made them stranded and they were running out of food • They had to eat their mules and had to turn to cannibalism PICTURES