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Mar 2, 2020 · Published March 2, 2020. Updated March 12, 2024. Over 40 people survived the Donner Party's doomed expedition. But what happened to them after their rescue in 1847? Unknown/Wikimedia Commons James and Margaret Reed managed to survive the Donner Party disaster with their four children.
Patrick Breen. Margaret Peggy Breen. The Breens’ friend and neighbor Patrick Dolan, 35, died on December 26, 1846, at the Snowshoe Party’s Camp of Death.
Margaret Breen insisted that she and her family did not cannibalize the dead, but Kristin Johnson, Ethan Rarick and Joseph King—whose account is sympathetic to the Breen family—do not consider it credible that the Breens, who had been without food for nine days, would have survived otherwise.
Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and their seven children, Breen described the harsh winter weather, the leather hides they resorted to eating, and the deaths of their traveling...
- American Experience
Sep 14, 2024 · Donner party, group of American pioneers stranded en route to California in 1846. The group was named for the expedition’s captain, George Donner. It was widely circulated that members of the party resorted to cannibalism after their food ran out, giving the party its lasting notoriety.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Patrick and Margaret Breen, their five children, and members of the Graves and Jacob Donner families were left behind at what came to be called Starved Camp. After five long days the Breens and other survivors were brought out by John Stark of the Third Relief.
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Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and their seven children, Breen described the harsh winter weather, the leather hides they resorted to eating, and the deaths of their traveling...
