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Mar 2, 2020 · Only two families survived the Donner Party without losing a single member: the Breens, who refused to share their supplies with others, and the Reeds.
Five-year-old Isaac Donner froze to death, and Reed nearly died. Mary Donner's feet were badly burned because they were so frostbitten that she did not realize she was sleeping with them in the fire. When the storm passed, the Breen and Graves families were too apathetic and exhausted to move, having not eaten for days.
Jan 22, 2020 · The Breens and Reeds had no fatalities even though the Reeds had the least amount of supplies. The Graves and Murphy families who made up the largest family groups survived by more than half and the four Graves’ who did die, did so in the storms that assailed them during the crossing rather than at the lakeside camp.
Dec 24, 2021 · Forty-six starving, half-dead people made it out alive. Despite their infamy, because the Donner Party arrived ahead of the Gold Rush, they became some of the first white leaders in newly founded...
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Oct 29, 2020 · Of the families that entered the mountains, only two survived intact: The Reed and Breen families. Of all of the survivors, the Reed clan probably made the best of it — something you could attribute to the fact that patriarch James Reed hadn’t actually been trapped in the Sierras with his family.
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Oct 12, 2022 · Five perished before reaching the Sierras, 35 died at the camps or attempting to cross the mountains, and one died just after reaching the valley at the foot of the western slope.
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Sep 14, 2024 · Breen’s account of the winter of 1846–47 would provide the only contemporary written record of the Donner party’s ordeal. On December 15 Baylis Williams, an employee of the Reed family, died of malnutrition at the lake camp; his was the first recorded death in the camps, although many others would soon follow.
