Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of The Donner Party Donner Party visitors still carry cameras and

visitors still carry cameras and vow to visit again next year

With a history in the Sierra Nevada stretching back 9000 years they are the oldest tribe in California

For the next 40 years

and it includes mouthwatering innovations to delight foragers of any experience level

The underdog American ice hockey team won the first-ever USA gold medal in that sport

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of The Donner Party Donner Party visitors still carry cameras andAward winning author George R. Stewart's history of the Donner Party is compulsive reading a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of horrifying episode in the history of the west" (Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty seven people men, women, and children set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route.