Overview
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of the trapped settlers joined together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.
Cast
- Crispin Glover as William Foster
- Clayne Crawford as William Eddy
- Michele Santopietro as Amanda McCutchen
- Mark Boone Junior as Franklin Graves
- Christian Kane as Charles Stanton
- Crispian Belfrage as Patrick Dolan
- Catherine Black as Ann Fosdick
- Jamie Anne Allman as Eleanor Eddy
- Jack Kyle as Milt McCutchen
- Cary Wayne Moore as Jay Fosdick