The Donner/Reed Party

The Oregon/California Trail was a hard trek for all who made the crossing, but for some it proved more treacherous than for others. For many of them they had to sell their farms, buy wagons for the crossing, say good-bye to family and friends they may never see again, pack all their worldly possessions into a tiny space and still have room to travel, and procure months worth of provision to see them through a very long journey. Along the way many of the emigrants lost their parents, brothers, sisters, and children to sickness, starvation, Indian attacks, and accidents. There were a variety of hardships along the way such as bad weather, lack of water, lack of nutrietous food, wagon repairs, and untried routes. This was just such the case for the Donner and Reed party, they were to encounter all of these hardships plus more, one of the hardships they would have to face was deplorable and unspeakable, the eating of human flesh. The ways in which they endured were sometimes horrific and t...