A New Look at the Donner Party

A New Look at the Donner Party

The Donner Party was a wagon train of about 80 pioneers who set out for California from Springfield MO in 1846. Hoping to make the Sacramento Valley by autumn, they fell behind schedule after taking an untried shortcut through the Great Salt Lake Desert. When an October snowstorm hit, the party was...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archaeology 2012-05, Vol.65 (3), p.53-62
1. Verfasser: Schablitsky, Julie M.
Format: Magazinearticle
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
American history
Animals
Archaeological excavation
Archaeology
Bones
Camping
Cannibalism
Children
Historic buildings & sites
Historical archaeology
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Material culture
Meadows
Native Americans
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Zusammenfassung:The Donner Party was a wagon train of about 80 pioneers who set out for California from Springfield MO in 1846. Hoping to make the Sacramento Valley by autumn, they fell behind schedule after taking an untried shortcut through the Great Salt Lake Desert. When an October snowstorm hit, the party was just 100 miles from their destination. Here, Schablitsky reevaluates the story of the Donner Party through the excavation and study of a pioneer campsite.
ISSN:0003-8113
1943-5746