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Donner Party
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Donner Party, wagon train of emigrants who set out across the plains for California (1846). Taking a new cutoff south of the Great Salt Lake, they suffered great hardships and were so delayed that they were blocked by early snows in the Sierra Nevada. They camped at what is now called Donner Lake, and during the winter about half their number died of starvation. Rescue parties from California brought out survivors in the spring, after some of them had resorted to cannibalism. The gruesome yet heroic nature of these adventures has led to their figuring in many novels and poems, e.g. the opening of Harte's
Gabriel Conroy, and Vardis Fisher's
The Mothers. The recognized historian of the subject is George R. Stewart.
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Donner and Falconbridge Expand Search for Nickel in Labrador.
Business Wire; 1/15/2002; 700+ words
; ...representative from each of Donner and Falconbridge. Exploration...developed and finalized by both parties, and all programs and property...competitive for the industry. Donner and Falconbridge both have...all or any part of the other party's interest in any property...a right to acquire 50% of ...
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Donner Minerals Ltd. - Falconbridge Options 50% Of SVB Project For $23 Million.
Business Wire; 9/7/2001; 700+ words
; ...formed comprising all of the parties to develop and finalize all...its right to earn 50% of Donner's interest in any deposits...this interest by funding Donner's share of feasibility costs and arranging Donner's share of production financing...
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Tracking the Donner Party: tracing a terrible trail. (includes related article on tourist activities)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; The tragedy of the Donner Party is familiar to all Westerners. But familiarity...week. At the end of October, the bulk of the party arrived at Truckee (now Donner) Lake. (The Donner brothers' wagons, carrying 21 of the party...
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In the Sierra Nevada west of Reno, Donner Summit is a summer playground.(includes related article on Donner Summit Lodging)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...reflect on the fate of the snowbound Donner Party back in 1846. Summer on the summit...Donner Memorial State Park (12593 Donner Pass Rd.; 582-7892), where...museum tells the tragic story of the Donner Party. A short nature trail takes you...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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FORGOTTEN DONNER HORNS IN ON ACTION.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 12/7/2001; 700+ words
; ...exposed in Buntport Theater's Donner: A Documentary, helpfully...about the reindeer . . . not the Party.'' Not a film but a stage play, Donner mocks the conventions of PBS...work offstage. For the lead in Donner, Buntport has brought in another...
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Scientists: Donner Family Not Cannibals
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/13/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...what is thought to have been a Donner Party camp near Truckee, Calif., July...the first time that part of the Donner Party spent that fateful winter there...winter along what is now called Donner Lake, bordering Interstate 80...
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Donner Party site bears grim witness
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Sierra, and think about how the Donner Party became snowbound and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. The Donner Party was made up of nearly 100...have made such a connection to the Donner Party and that time in history, too...
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The Donner Party: an archaeological perspective on a tragedy in the Sierras.(The Archaeology of the Donner Party)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Historical Methods; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...The Archaeology of the Donner Party. With contributions by...Archaeology of the Donner Party presents the story from...material remains of the Donner Party. Given the list...e., the era of the Donner Party)--when there is ample...
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Cannibalism in the Sierra Nevadas: the Donner Party: when most people hear the words "the Donner Party," the story of the wagon train members who ate each other in order to survive their trek across the Sierra Nevada mountains comes to mind. However, new evidence from archeologists suggests that the cannibalism might not have been as grisly as initially reported.
Magazine article from: The Forensic Examiner; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the ill-fated Donner Party (sometimes known...camp of emigrants at Donner Lake (Johnson, 2006a...February, 12 people at Donner Lake had died. This relief party took 23 survivors...Three more relief parties were formed to rescue...
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Republican Party, Democratic Party? How about the Donner Party?(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Indiana Business Magazine; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Consider the case of the Donner Party. Those on the pioneer...That leader was George Donner, an affable, grandfatherly...converged and left the Donner Party stranded in the snow and...be shaken to death." Donner's compassion for that...
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Donner Party
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Donner Party group of emigrants to California...prominent among them were the two Donner families and the Reed family...about half of the original party of 81 reached California...dedicated to the party. Nearby Donner Pass has a U.S. weather...
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Donner Pass
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Donner Pass a site in the Sierra Nevada in north-eastern California where some members of an 1844 emigrant party (the Donner Party , named from the Donner family) survived a blizzard partly by eating the dead.
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Exposure to the Elements
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...starvation as in the case of the Donner party, the ill-fated group of emigrants...oral and written accounts of the Donner party, adding to the inability to...Donald. The Archaeology of the Donner Party. Reno: University of Nevada...
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Quasi
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...Coomes was the frontman for San Francisco’s Donner Party. The band released two albums. The first album had...revolting shock value of some of his songs. The second Donner Party album had a Coomes’ song with the title...
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Bergen, Candice
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Blue (Nelson) (as Cresta Marybelle Lee) 1971 The Hunting Party (Medford) (as Melissa Ruger); Carnal Knowledge (Nichols...Kyle McLaren); Arthur the King (Merlin and the Sword ) (Donner—for TV) (as Morgan Le Fey);Murder: By Reason...
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