Weird History

All the Mistakes That Doomed the Donner Party (2020x9)

Air date: Jan 29, 2020

Most people know what happened to the Donner Party, a group of settlers led by George Donner and James F. Reed, once they reached Alder Creek, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Members of the party resorted to cannibalism in order to survive after they became trapped by a massive snowfall.