唐纳－瑞德大队

唐纳-瑞德大队
唐纳-瑞德大队（Donner-Reed Party），指的是一群在1846年春季由美国东部出发，预计前往加州的移民队伍，他们是由数个家庭组成的篷车大队。由于错误的资讯，他们的旅程遭受延迟，导致他们在1846年末到1847年初之间受困在内华达山区度过寒冬。在恶劣的环境下，接近半数成员遭到冻死或者饿死，部分生存者依靠食人存活下来。

唐纳-瑞德大队的故事

唐纳-瑞德大队惨剧

“唐纳之队”是西进运动中最惨烈的悲剧。一队移民误听了黑斯廷斯的指示，想要走捷径结果反而浪费了宝贵的18天时间，以至于在最后穿越内华达山脉之时，被大雪困于深山，最后依靠互相蚕食而勉强活下来，89人的队伍只剩下45人。
In the spring of 1846, a group of nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west. Led by brothers Jacob and George Donner, the group attempted to take a new and supposedly shorter route to California. They soon encountered rough terrain and numerous delays, and they eventually became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Reduced to cannibalism to survive through the winter, only half of the original group reached California the following year. Their story quickly spread, and before long the term "Donner Party" became synonymous with one of humanity's most ingrained taboos.