On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive ...

The chaotic reshuffling of college sports conferences got me thinking about the Donner Party. They were a group of American pioneers who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains while on a ...

A lot of headline writers had a field day in the middle of April, putting toppers on stories suggesting that members of the Donner Party might not have engaged in ...

An archaeological dig by a team including University researchers did not find evidence of cannibalism at one of the infamous Donner Party’s two campsites. “We wanted to add complexity into an event ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - It's quite likely that Uno, the Donner family dog, became a desperate feast for the starved, ill-fated pioneers when they were trapped by a relentless snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada ...

RENO, Nev. — They ate the family dog, but the latest research into the Donner Party found no conclusive evidence of cannibalism by the Donner family at a Sierra Nevada campsite where several of the ...

The story of the Donner Party, as it’s been told for well over a century, is like the Xbox version of The Oregon Trail. The pioneers set out in 1846 headed west in a wagon, bound for the Cali sun, but ...

In December, 1846, several families led by George Donner found themselves stranded at Truckee Lake (later renamed Donner Lake) in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. There they huddled in makeshift ...