One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week, members of the Donner Party were still fighting their way through rugged Emigration Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains in eastern Utah.
One hundred and sixty-four years ago this week, the members of the Donner Party were fighting their way through the labyrinth of canyons and mountain ridges of the Wasatch Mountains (eastern Utah).
One hundred and sixty-four years ago this week, members of the Donner Party had left Fort Bridger and were headed via the Hastings Cutoff through the Wasatch Mountains (eastern Utah) to California.
One hundred and sixty-four years ago this week, members of the Donner Party had left Fort Bridger and were headed for California via the Hastings Cutoff which ran through the rugged Wasatch Mountains in eastern Utah.
One hundred and sixty-four years ago last week, on July 19, 1846, members of the Donner Party made a "left-hand turn" off the traditional California Trail and headed southwest towards Fort Bridger on what was then called the Hastings Cutoff.
One hundred and sixty-four years ago this week, members of the Donner Party finally conquered South Pass (Wyoming) where they crossed the Continental Divide.
One hundred and sixty-four years ago this week the members of the Donner Party were plodding west across Wyoming toward a gap (South Pass) in the Rocky Mountains.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago in April, 1847 the saga of the Donner Party was over. Of the 81 pioneers who were trapped in the Sierra during the winter of 1846-47, nearly half had died of cold and starvation.
One hundred and sixty-plus years ago this week, the saga of the Donner Party was just about over. The third rescue effort had returned with a group of survivors. Only five pioneers were still alive back in the mountains, and three of them were expected to die there.
