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 California. 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. http://www.history. com WHO WAS LEADING THE PARTY WESTWARD? • George Donner was leading the two families westward along with Lansford Hasting https://en. wikipedia. org WHAT WAS THEIR PLAN WHEN THEY GOT TO CALIFORNIA? • Their plan was to start a new life Lansford Hasting wanted to move to California because he wanted to be president of California http://www.le gendsofameri ca.com WHAT STATE DID THE DONNER PARTY LEAVE FROM? • The Donner Party left from Springfield Illinois and they wanted to travel to California to start a new life. http://www. history.com WHEN DID THE DONNER PARTY LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA? • The Donner Party was leaving Springfield in April 1846 https://en.wikipe dia.org WHAT HAPPEN WHEN THEY GOT ONE THE TRAIL? • 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 http://ww w.legends ofamerica. com WHAT DID THEY EAT WHEN THEY WERE STRANDED? • When they were on the trail, they had to eat there mules, and all of their food that they were saving http://www. history.com DETAILS • On the Oregon trail 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.