Bad luck and poor decisions turned the already dangerous trek from Missouri to California into a fatal affair for roughly ...

The disastrous, three-month crossing of Utah and Nevada in 1846 set the stage for one of the Old West’s worst tragedies. Per ...

The answer haunted the 87 migrants of the Donner Party, who in 1846 attempted a shortcut to the Western frontier but instead lost 39 of their group to a winter of hunger and fierce blizzards.

On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive during a Sierra Nevada snowstorm. The information below originally ...