Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

The story

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.

Cast

R Robert FullerJames Reed A Andrew PrineLewis Keyser M Michael CallanWilliam Eddy D Diane McBainMargaret Reed J John AndersonPatrick Breen J John DoucetteGeorge Donner C Cindy EilbacherMary Graves R Royal DanoSutter G Gregory WalcottWill Mckutcheon L Lance LeGaultCharles Stanton W Whit BissellUncle Billy Graves P Peggy StewartMrs. Breen

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R Reid CruickshanksJohn Synder R Robert Carricart R Rudy Diaz B Brian Erickson J John Hansen P Paul Grace B Barta HeinerSarah Fosdick A Augustin Vallejo G George Barrows R Richard Jury E Elaine Daniel M Michael Ruud J Jorge Moreno K Kristen CurryVirginia Reed