Eliza Houghton (b. 1843) was the youngest child of George Donner, one of two Springfield, Illinois, brothers who organized the ill-fated California-bound emigra
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The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out to California in May 1846. Unfortunately, due to several mistakes and accidents along the way, the
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevad