Reproduces the 1880 edition of McGlashan's text, which chronicles the experiences of the Donner Party, a group of pioneers who set out from Springfield, IL in April of 1846 and encountered tragedy when they were trapped by a snowstorm in the Sierra mountains.
Stephen A. McCurdy, “Epidemiology of Disaster: The Donner Party (1846–1847), Western Journal of Medicine, Vol. 160, No. 4 (April 1994), 340–342. Dr. McCurdy examined the pattern of mortality in the Donner Party, focusing on the ...
Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey.
Eliza Houghton (b. 1843) was the youngest child of George Donner, one of two Springfield, Illinois, brothers who organized the ill-fated California-bound emigrant party that bore their name. Eliza and...
Toward the end of her life Mrs. Murphy showed the original letter to a young friend, Lucia Shepardson De Wolf, and had her make two copies of it. Mrs. Murphy died in 1921 at the age of eighty-six—seventy-four years after writing the ...
Can he ever hope to make it to California? Can he ever hope to escape? This is the 5th I Escaped adventure in the children's series about brave boys and girls who face real-world challenges and find ways to escape disaster.
“ As a kid , it was never a positive , ” said Ann Donner Simon , a descendant of Jacob Donner . “ Kids used to say , ' Don't sit next to Ann , she'll eat your arm off . ” SERRA GROST RDERS Today , more than twenty - five hundred people ...
Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.
A tragic legend of the way West The story of the Donner Party is a tragic and infamous episode in the history of the 19th century pioneer migrations that crossed continental America.
The Donner Party was organized largely in Illinois and left Independence, Missouri. The part consisted of as many as two hundred persons during the course of the journey, there were...
Spiral Bound with Card Stock covers, acid free paper.