How Well Do You Know The History of The Wild West?

When did the Donner Party undertake their epic journey?

In 1846, a group of settlers known as the Donner Party commenced their epic journey from Missouri to California aboard a wagon train. Unfortunately, they got trapped by snow while crossing the Sierra Nevada and remained there for four terribly long months; their supplies were badly depleted during those months and lots of stories emerged about how the survivors made it out.

According to some reports of the journey, some of the survivors were compelled to eat the flesh of those that didn’t make it. There were only 48 survivors of the original 87 that embarked on the journey.