Cast
Meredith Baxter (Margaret Reed)Chris Cooper (James Reed)Larry Drake (Patrick Breen)Robert Duncan McNeill (Milt Eliot)Laurie O'Brien (Elizabeth Graves)Frances Conroy (Peggy Breen)Jean Louisa Kelly (Mary Graves)James MacDonald (Charles Stanton)Matthew Walker (George Donner)Don S. Davis (Franklin Graves)Jean Simmons (Sarah Keyes)Grace Johnston (Virginia Reed)Lachlan Murdoch (James Reed Jr.)Joshua Silberg (Tommy Reed)Aline Levasseur (Patty Reed)Marie Stillin (Tamsen Donner)Byron Lucas (John Snyder)Pat Johnston (Mason)
Director
Dick Lowry
Synopsis
Margaret Reed, a wealthy and proud woman of Chicago unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party - a group of pioneers making their way to California by covered wagon in the summer of 1846. One by one the odds begin to stack against Margaret and her family as precious days slip away and an early winter storm closes the passes through the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Trapped without adequate food and supplies, Margaret struggles to keep her family alive.
