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The Donner Party is a 2009 American period Western drama film written and directed by Terrence Martin (credited as T.J. Martin), and starring Crispin Glover, Clayne Crawford, Michele Santopietro, Mark Boone Junior, and Christian Kane. It is based on the true story of the Donner Party, an 1840s westward traveling group of settlers headed for ...
The Donner Party is a 1992 documentary film that traces the history of the Donner Party, an ill-fated pioneer group that trekked from Springfield, Illinois to Sutter's Fort, California - a disastrous journey of 2500 miles made famous by the tales of cannibalism the survivors told upon reaching their destination.
Van Heflin plays Bridger in the 1951 film Tomahawk. Dennis Morgan portrays Bridger in the 1955 film The Gun That Won the West. Karl Swenson plays Bridger in the episode "The Jim Bridger Story" of NBC's Wagon Train, broadcast on May 10, 1961. James Wainwright plays Bridger in the 1976 TV movie Bridger, opposite Ben Murphy as Kit Carson.
Reed led a party out but a severe blizzard trapped them at the top of Donner Pass for two days, during which time they ran out of food. By the time the storm had passed, most were too weak to continue. Reed departed with his children but had to leave the others behind. A few days later, however, another party rescued them. [citation needed]
The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada .
[25] This television theme continued on American Murder Song Presents "The Donner Party Reunion Tour," which kicked off in October 2017. The Donner Party Reunion Tour visited 37 cities in North America and welcomed audiences to a live-taping of "The Black Wagon." [26] The tour began with a preview performance at Atlanta's Dragon Con. [27]
In 1978, she was cast as the female lead opposite Joe Namath in the short-lived NBC sitcom The Waverly Wonders. Later that year, she played the leading role in the teen comedy film Malibu Beach. In 1979, Lankford was cast as Ginger Ward, one of the original lead characters, in the CBS prime time soap opera Knots Landing. She starred on the show ...
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