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. ... Patty and Tommy Reed were soon too weak to cross the snowdrifts, and no one was strong enough to carry them. Margret Reed faced the agonizing predicament of accompanying her two older ...

2021年12月24日 · 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 possessions.

2020年3月2日 · After James Reed stabbed and killed a fellow Donner Party member, the group banished him and he managed to make it through Donner Pass before the snows trapped his family and the rest of the pioneers. At Sutter’s Fort in California, Reed raised money for a rescue expedition, which he helped lead.

James Frazier Reed (November 14, 1800 – July 24, 1874) was an Irish-American businessman, soldier and pioneer in the American West, notable for being an organizing member of the ill-fated Donner Party emigration to California in 1846.

Donner Party Survivor, Pioneer, Boarding House Owner. "Little Patty Reed" was 8 years old when her parents, James Frazier Reed and Margret Wilson Keyes left Springfield, Illinois as members of the ill fated Donner Party.

The Donner-Reed Party is mainly known for two things: having a mountain pass named after them and resorting to cannibalism to survive. However, there is so much more to tell regarding each family’s story, including that of the Reeds.

2022年7月13日 · 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.

2013年4月2日 · 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 to...

2011年9月27日 · Patty Reed's doll : the story of the Donner party by Laurgaard, Rachel K. (Rachel Kelley); Michaels, Elizabeth Sykes

James Reed, who was the leader of the Donner Party in fact if not in name, arrived in California ahead of the Party, and mounted two rescue attempts. His wife and children remained with the Party, many of whom blamed Reed for their predicament.