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February 19, 1847
Donner Party rescued
On this day in 1847, the first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the... MORE >
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DONNER PARTY,. group of American migrants to California in 1846–47. Two families, the Donners and the Reeds, accounted for most of the 87 members of the party, which left Sangamon Co., Ill., in 1846, under . . .
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