https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz Made with a quick smile en-us 2017-10-12 16:21:10 UTC 2026-01-25 18:02:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 0506449 https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196551810 They were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, and spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.

]]> 2017-10-12 17:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196551810 0506234 https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196899287 The Donner Party, or Donner-Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846.]]> 2017-10-13 16:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196899287 0506234 https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196900054 The journey west usually took between four and six months, but the Donner Party was slowed by following a new route called Hastings Cutoff, which crossed Utah's Wasatch Mountains and Great Salt lake Desert.]]> 2017-10-13 16:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196900054 0506234 https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196900628 Rescuers from California attempted to reach the settlers, but the first relief party did not arrive until the middle of February 1847, almost four months after the wagon train had become trapped.]]> 2017-10-13 17:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196900628 0506234 https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196900869 Their food supplies ran extremely low and, in mid-December, some of the group set out on foot to obtain help.]]> 2017-10-13 17:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196900869 0506449 https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196916021 2017-10-13 17:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196916021 0506449 https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196916183 2017-10-13 17:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0506449/en9ki3nvv5pz/wish/196916183