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The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Dec 24, 2021 · A photograph of Patty Reed, a survivor of the Donner Party, with her beloved toy doll. Reed saved the doll when the loss of draft animals forced the family to abandon its...
Mar 2, 2020 · As Donner party survivor, 12-year-old Patty Reed, wrote to her cousin in 1847: “Oh Mary, I have not wrote you half of the trouble we have had, but I have wrote you enough to let you know now that you don’t know what trouble is.”
Apr 2, 2013 · In a moment of childhood defiance, eight-year-old Patty Reed stowed away this little dollhouse doll in her voluminous skirts and smuggled her to California. The Reed family were heading...
Jul 13, 2022 · Patty Reed’s Doll: A Small Survivor of the Donner Party. The infamous Donner Party was one group of several that left Independence, Missouri, in mid-April 1846. They were all headed for Sutter’s Fort, California. Emigrant party on the road to California.
But some survived, including eight-year-old Patty Reed, a girl filled with dignity and determination in the face of mortal danger. This is her story, as told by Dolly, the wooden doll she kept hidden in her dress.
Oct 29, 2020 · The crowd that watched included 80-year-old Patty Reed, who’d been just eight when her family survived the Sierras, and who’d returned to this place that had brought her family such unimaginable pain.
