In the donner party, what did the donner party find stuck in the branches of a tree as they followed their map westward?

a. a message that they should return to where they came from until the weather was better
b. a note that there were unfriendly native american tribes waiting ahead
c. a message from one of their group explaining he would be traveling the rest of the way with a different party
d. a note from a traveler who had gone on the marked trail, telling them to take a different and safer route if they could

The correct answer is letter D: a note from a traveler who had gone on the marked trail, telling them to take a different and safer route if they could.

The Donner Party was a group of American Pioneers who headed out to California and followed a different route by wagons. They ended up being stuck in the blizzard, resulting to the lost of their supplies and eventually into cannibalism. Along the trail they saw letters stuck in trees that they need to take a different and safer route in order for them to get where they are headed, but the group did not heed the message and still pursued their path which lead to their own demise.