An edition of History of the Donner party: a tragedy of the Sierra
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History of the Donner party
a tragedy of the Sierra
12th ed.
by Charles Fayette McGlashan
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"The delirium preceding death by starvation is full of strange phantasies."
Publish Date
1922
Publisher
Carlisle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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