On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive during a Sierra Nevada snowstorm. The information below originally ...

The Donner Party was a group of wagon-train emigrants who traveled west to California in the spring of 1846. They camped at the future site of Reno in October of that year and by Nov. 1 became ...