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Their food supplies ran dangerously low, and in mid-December some of the group set out on foot to obtain help. Rescuers from California attempted to reach the migrants, but the first relief party did not arrive until the middle of February 1847, almost four months after the wagon train became trapped. Of the 87 members of the party, 48 survived.
About October 16, 1846: The Donner Party arrives at the Truckee River, which will lead them into the Sierra Nevada. October 1846: John Breen later recalled of this time, "The weather was already very cold and the heavy clouds hanging over the mountains to the west were strong indications of an approaching winter.
Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 16,180, ...
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Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
In Sparks, the Truckee River reached flood stage at 2:00 a.m. on January 1, followed by Reno at 10:30 a.m. [1] The river's flood stage was 12 feet, and it crested at 14.7 feet on January 2, breaking the last record of 13.8 in 1950. [12] [13] The river experienced widespread flooding throughout its 90-mile course between Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake.
This week we launched a special report, "'La pérdida - The loss’: Deadly disaster at El Paso, Juárez border." The series, the culmination of a year of reporting, tells the human story of the ...
Why the slow demise of a 130-year-old family-owned pharmacy chain spells disaster for consumers. Maria Aspan. ... while its pharmacies were trying to survive on smaller and smaller PBM ...