Donner Party

[Buttzilla]

I've been going to Alpine Meadows for the past 5 weekends and everytime i mass Donner Pass/Donner Lake I can't help but think of the Donner party. My gf told me about the incident on our first trip. Watching TV last night, the Discovery Channel or the History CHannel (forgot which) is going to have a documentary on what happened, which will be aired today 4/1/2004.

All i know about it is a group of Hikers got lost, got hungry, and started eating each other. anybody know more detail???

 

[Borracho]

I think a guy named google does... jk

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

You better Google it.......Hikers, lol

Donner !! Party of six.

 

[SaltBoy]

Hey, watch it - I'm about to eat lunch!

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Hey, watch it - I'm about to eat lunch!

Breast or rump roast?

 

[waggy]

didn't one of the colleges out there name the cafeteria the Donner cafeteria? it was like 10 years ago or so.

maybe it was they were trying. something like that.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Originally posted by: galvanizedyankee
You better Google it.......Hikers, lol

Donner !! Party of six.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: galvanizedyankee
You better Google it.......Hikers, lol

Donner !! Party of six.

LOL... hikers.

some people really don't know their history.

The Donner party is the name given to a group of emigrants, including the families of George Donner and his brother Jacob, who became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846-47. Nearly half of the party died, and some resorted to eating their dead in an effort to survive. The experience has become legendary as the most spectacular episode in the record of Western migration.


The story of the Donner tragedy quickly spread across the country. Newspapers printed letters and diaries, along with wild tales of men and women who had gone mad eating human flesh. Emigration to California fell off sharply.

Then, in January 1848, gold was discovered in John Sutter's creek. By late 1849 more than 100,000 people had rushed to California to dig and sift near the streams and canyons where the Donner party had suffered so much. In 1850 California entered the union as the 31st state. Year by year, traffic over "Donner Pass" increased. Truckee Lake became a tourist attraction and the terrible ordeals of the Donner party passed into history and legend.

 

[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: waggy
didn't one of the colleges out there name the cafeteria the Donner cafeteria? it was like 10 years ago or so.

maybe it was they were trying. something like that.

UC Boulder's cafeteria is named for Alfred Packer.

 

[NTB]

Bump!

That special is on the History channel right now, for anybody that's curious.

Nate