History of the Donner party

a tragedy of the Sierra

12th ed.
  • 9 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 9 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading


Download Options

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
December 14, 2011 | History

History of the Donner party

a tragedy of the Sierra

12th ed.
  • 9 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

"The delirium preceding death by starvation is full of strange phantasies."

Publish Date
Publisher
Carlisle

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: History of the Donner Party
History of the Donner Party
March 30, 2005, IndyPublish.com
Hardcover in English
Cover of: History Of The Donner Party
History Of The Donner Party
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
Paperback in English
Cover of: History of the Donner party
History of the Donner party: a tragedy of the Sierra.
1947, Stanford University Press
in English
Cover of: History of the Donner party
Cover of: History of the Donner party
Cover of: History of the Donner party
Cover of: History of the Donner party
History of the Donner party: a tragedy of the Sierra
1907, H. S. Crocker
in English - 9th ed.
Cover of: History of the Donner party
History of the Donner party: A tragedy of the Sierra
1902, H. S. Crocker co.
in English - 7th ed.
Cover of: History of the Donner party
History of the Donner party: a tragedy of the Sierra
1902, H.S. Crocker
in English - 7th ed.
Cover of: History of the Donner party
History of the Donner party: a tragedy of the Sierra
1880, Bancroft
- 2d ed. illustated.

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. Donner Lake — A Famous Tourist Resort — Building the Central Pacific — California's Skating Park — The Pioneers — The Organization of the Donner Party — Ho! for California! — A Mammoth Train — The Dangers by the Way — False Accounts of the Sufiferings Endured — Complete Roll of the Company — Impostors Claiming to Belong to the Party — Killed by the Pawnees — An Alarmed Camp — Resin Indians — A Mother's Death
Page 15
CHAPTER II. Mrs Donner's Letters — Life on the Plains — An Interesting Sketch — The Outfit Required — The Platte River — Botanizing — Five Hundred and Eighteen Wagons for California— Burning "Buffalo Chips"— The Fourth of July at Fort Laramie — Indian Discipline — Sioux Attempt to Purchase Mary Graves — George Donner Elected Captain — Letter of Stanton — Dissension — One Company Split up into Five — The Fatal Hastings Cut-off — Lowering Wagons over a Precipice — The First View of Great Salt Lake
Page 24
CHAPTER. in A Grave of Salt— Members of the Mystic Tie— Twenty Wells— A Desolate Alkaline Waste — Abandoned on the Desert — A Night of Horror — A Steer Maddened by Thirst — The Mirage — Yoking an Ox and a Cow — *'Cacheing" Goods — The Emigrants' Silent Logic — A Cry for Relief — Two Heroic Volunteers — A Perilous Journey — Letters to Captain Sutter
Page 34
CHAPTER IV. Gravelly Ford — The Character of James F Reed — Causes which Led to the Reed- Snyder Tragedy — ^John Snyder's Popularity — The Fatal Alterca- tion — Conflicting Statements of Survivors — Snyder's Death — A Brave Girl — A Primitive Trial — A Court of Final Resort — Verdict of Banish- ment — A Sad Separation — George and Jacob Donner Ahead at the Time — Finding Letters in Split Sticks — Danger of Starvation
Page 41
CHAPTER V. Great Hardships— The Sink of the Humboldt— Indians Stealing Cattle— An Entire Company Compelled to Walk — Abandoned to Die — Wolfinger Murdered — Rhinehart's Confession — Arrival of C T Stan- ton— A Temporary Relief— A Fatal Accident— The Sierra Nevada Mountains — Imprisoned in Snow — Struggles for Freedom — A Hopeless Situation — Digging for Cattle in Snow — How the Breen Cabin Hap- pened to be Built — A Thrilling Sketch of a Solitary Winter— Putting up Shelters — The Donners Have Nothing but Tents — Fishing for Trout
Page 51
CHAPTER. VL Endeavors to Cross the Mountains — Discouraging Failures — Eddy Kills a Bear — Making Snow-Shoes — Who composed the "Forlorn Hope" — Mary A Graves — An Irishman — A Generous Act — Six Days' Rations — Mary Graves' Account — Snow-Blind — C T Stanton's Death — "I Am Coming Soon" — Sketch of Stanton's Early Life — His Charity and Self-sacrifice — The Diamond Breast-pin — Stanton's Last Poem
Page 64
CHAPTER. VH A Wife's Devotion — The Smoky Gorge — Caught in a Storm — Casting Lots to See Who should Die — A Hidden River — The Delirium of Starvation — Franklin Ward Graves — Ilis Dying Advice — A Frontiersman's Plan — The Camp of Death — A Dread Resort — A Sister's Agony — The Indians Refuse to Eat — Lewis and Salvador Flee for Their Lives — Killing a Deer — Tracks MarUecl by Blood -Nine Days without Food
Page 78
9 CHAPTER VIII Starvation at Donner Lake — Preparing Rawhide for Food — Eating the Fire- rug — Shoveling Snow off the Beds — Playing they were Tea-cups of Custard — A Starving Baby — Pleading with Silent Eloquence — Patrick Breen's Diary — ^Jacob Donher's Death — A Child's Vow — A Christmas Dinner — Lost on the Summits — A Stump Twenty-two Feet High — Seven Nursing Babes at Donner Lake — A Devou< Father — A Dying Boy — Sorrow and SuflFering at the Cabins S9 CHAPTER IX The Last Resort — Two Reports of a Gun— Only Temporary Relief— Weary Traveling — ^The Snow Bridges — Human Tracks! — An Indian Rancherie — Acorn Bread — Starving Five Times! — Carried Six Miles — Bravery of John Rhodes — A Thirty-two Days' Journey — Organizing the First Relief Party — Alcalde Sinclair's Address — Capt R P Tucker's Companions
Page 105
CHAPTER X. A Lost Age in California History — The Change Wrought by the Discovery of Gold — The Start from Johnson's Ranch — A Bucking Horse — A Night Ride — Lost in the Mountains — A Terrible Night — A Flooded Camp— Crossing a Mountain Torrent — Mule Springs — A Crazy Com- panion — Howlings of Gray Wolves — A Deer Rendezvous — A Midnight Thief— Frightening Indians— The Diary of the First Relief Party
Page 113
CHAPTER XL. Hardships of Reed and Herron — Generosity of Captain Sutter — Attempts to Cross the Mountains with Provisions — Curtis' Dog — Compelled to Turn Back — Hostilities with Mexico— Memorial to Gov Stockton — Verba Buena's Generosity — Johnson's Liberality — Pitiful Scenes at Donner Lake — Noble Mothers — Dying rather than Eat Human Flesh — A Mother's Prayer — Tears of Joy— Eating the Shoestrings
Page 121
lO — School Discipline — Capt George Donner's Appearance — Parting Scenes at Alder Creek — Starting over the Mountains — A Baby's Death — A Mason's Vow — Crossing the Snow Barrier — More Precious than Gold or Diamonds — Elitha Donner's Kindness
Page 137
CHAPTER XIII. Death of Ada Keseberg — Denton Discovering Gold — A Poem Composed while Dying — The Caches of Provisions Robbed by Fishers — The Sequel to the Reed-Snyder Tragedy — Death from Overeating — The Agony of Frozen Feet — An Interrupted Prayer — Stanton, after Death, Guides the Relief Party! — The Second Relief Party Arrives — A Soli- tary Indian — Patty Reed and Her Father — Starving Children Lying in Bed — Mrs Graves' Money still Buried at Donner Lake
Page 148
CHAPTER XIV. Leaving Three Men in the Mountains — The Emigrants Quite Helpless — Bear Tracks in the Snow — The Clumps of Tamarack — Wounding a Bear — Blood Stains upon the Snow — A Weary Chase — A Momentous Day — Stone and Cady Leave the Sufferers — A Mother Offering Five Hundred Dollars — Mrs Donner Parting from her Children — "God will Take Care of You" — Buried in Snow without Food or Fire — Pines Uprooted by the Storm — A Grave Cut in the Snow — The Cub's Cave — Firing at Random — A Desperate Undertaking — Preparing for a Hand-to-hand Battle — Precipitated into the Cave — Seizing the Bear — Mrs Elizabeth Donner's Death — Clarke and Baptiste Attempt to Escape —A Death more Cruel than Starvation
Page 163
CHAPTER XV. A Mountam Storm — Provisions Exhausted — Battling the Storm Fiends — Black Despair — Icy Coldness — A Picture of Desolation — The Sleep of Death — A Piteous Farewell — Falling into the Fire-well — Isaac Donner's Death — Living upon Snow Water — Excruciating Pain — A Vision of Angels— 'i Patty is Dying 1"— The Thumb of a Mitten— A Child's Treasures — The "Dolly" of the Donner Party
Page 170
1 1 CHAPTER XVI A Mother at Starved Camp — Repeating the Litany — Hoping in Despair — Wasting Away — The Precious Lump of Sugar — "James is Dying" — Restoring a Life — Relentless Hunger — The Silent Night Vigils — The Sight of Earth— Descending the Snow Pit— The Flesh of the Dead- Refusing to Eat — The Morning Star— The Mercy of God— The Muti- lated Forms — The Dizziness of Delirium — Faith Rewarded — "There is Mrs Breen."
Page 183
CHAPTER. XVIL The Rescue — California Aroused — A Verba Buena Newspaper — Tidings of Woe — A Cry of Distress — Noble Generosity — Subscriptions for the Donner Party — The First and Second Reliefs — Organization of the Third — The Dilemma — Voting to Abandon a Family — The Fatal Ayes — ^John Stark's Bravery — Carrying the Starved Children — A Plea for the Relief Party
Page 191
CHAPTER. XVHL Arrival of the Third Relief— The Living and the Dead — Captain George Donner Dying — Mrs Murphy's Words — Foster and Eddy at the Lake — Tamsen Donner and Her Children — A Fearful Struggle — The Hus- band's Wishes — Walking Fourteen Miles — Wifely Devotion — Choosing Death — The Night Journey — An Unparalleled Ordeal— An Honored Name— Three Little Waifs— "And Our Parents are Dead."
Page 199
CHAPTER XIX. False Ideas about the Donner Party — Accused of Six Murders — Interviews with Lewis Keseberg — His Statement — An Educated German — A Pre- destined Fate — Keseberg's Lameness — Slanderous Reports — Covered with Snow — "Loathsome, Insipid, and Disgusting" — Longings toward Suicide— Tamsen Donner's Death — Going to Get the Treasure — Sus- pended over a Hidden Stream — "Where is Donner's Money?" — Ex- torting a Confession
Page 205
1 2 CHAPTER XX Dates of the Rescues — Arrival of the Fourth Relief — A Scene Beggaring^ Description — The Wealth of the Donners — An Appeal to the Highest Court — A Dreadful Shock — Saved from a Grizzly Bear — A Trial for Slander — Keseberg Vindicated — Two Kettles of Human Blood — The Enmity of the Relief Party— "Born under an Evil Star"— "Stone Him I Stone Him!" — Fire and Flood — Keseberg's Reputation for Hon- esty — A Prisoner in His Own House — The Most Miserable of Men
Page 216
CHAPTER XXI. Sketch of Gen John A Sutter— The Donner Party's Benefactor— The Least and Most that Earth can Bestow — The Survivors' Request — His Birth and Parentage — Efforts to Reach California — New Helvetia — A Puny Army — Uninviting Isolation — Ross and Bodega — Unbounded Generosity— Sutter's Wealth— Effect of the Gold Fever— Wholesale Robbery — The Sobrante Decision — A "Genuine and Meritorious" Grant— Utter Ruin— Hock Farm— Gen Sutter's Death— Mrs E P Houghton's Tribute
Page 225
CHAPTER XXII. The Death List— The Forty-two Who Perished— Names of Those Saved— Forty-eight Survivors — Traversing Snow-belt Five Times — Burying the Dead — An Appalling Spectacle — Tamsen Donner's Last Act of Devo- tion — A Remarkable Proposal — Twenty-six Present Survivors — Mc- Cutchen — Keseberg — The Graves Family — The Murphys — Naming Marysville — The Reeds^ — The Breens
Page 236
CHAPTER. XXIH The Orphan Children of George and Tamsen Donner — Sutter, the Philan- thropist — "If Mother Would Only Come" — Christian and Mary Brun- ner — An Enchanting Home — "Can't You Keep Both of Us?" — Eliza Donner Crossing the Torrent — Earning a Silver Dollar — The Gold Excitement — Getting an Education — Elitha C Donner — Leanna C Donner — Frances E Donner — Georgia A Donner — Eliza P Donner.
Page 247

Edition Notes

Published in
San Francisco

The Physical Object

Pagination
261 p. ;

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7162224M
Internet Archive
donnerhistoryofp00mcglrich

Source records

Internet Archive item record

Links outside Open Library

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
December 14, 2011 Edited by ImportBot import new book
September 12, 2011 Edited by ToCb0t Adding Table of Contents
October 13, 2010 Edited by George merge authors
April 14, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Linked existing covers to the edition.
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Internet Archive item record