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
9th ed.
by Charles Fayette McGlashan
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History of the Donner Party
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Sacramento, Calif
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 Sufferings Endured — Complete Roll of the Company — Impostors Claiming to Belong to the Party — Killed by the Pawnees — An Alanned Camp — Resin Indians — A Mother's Death
Page 15
CHAPTER 11.
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 Mar}' 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.
IH 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
8 , CIIAI'TER IV Gravelly Ford — The Character of James F Reed — Causes whicli Led to the Reed Snyder Tragedy — John Snyder's Popularity — The Fatal Alterca- tion — Conllicting Statements of Survivors — Snyder's Death — A lirave Girl — A Primitive Trial — A Court of Final Resort — Verdict of Itanish- ment — A Sad Separation — George and Jacob Uonner 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 Temporar)' 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-Slioes — Who composed the "Forlorn IIo|ic" — Mary A Graves — An Ir.shman — A Generous Act — Six Days' Rations — Mary Graves' Account — Snow-Blind — C T Stanton's Death — "I Am doming Soon" — Sketch of Stanton's Early Life — His Charity and Self-sacrifice — The Diamond Breast-pin — Stantoa's La.>t Poem
Page 64
CHAPTER VII.
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 — His 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 — Tr.ic'.vS Marke<l by l!l»»i>l -Nino Days without F<k)(1
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9 CIIAPTER VIII Starvation at Donner Lake — Preparing Rawhide for Food — Eating the Fire- rug — Shoveling Snow o(T the Beds — Playing they were Tea-cups of Custard — A Starving Baby — Pleading with Silent Eloquence — Patrick Breen's Diaiy — Jacob Conner'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 Devoii* Father — A Dying Boy — Sorrow and Suffering at the Cabins
Page 89
CIIAPTER 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 RJiodes — 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 (]old — 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— lluwlings of Gray Wolves — A Deer Rendezvous — A Midnight Thief — Frightening Indians — The Diary of the First Relief Party
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10 — School Discipline — Capl George Donner'S Appearance — Parting Scenes at Alder Creek — Starting over llie Mountains — A Baby's Death — A Mason's Vow — Crossing liie Snow Barrier — More Precious than Gold or Diamonds — Elitha Donner's Kindness
Page 137
CHAPTER XI.
II Death of Ada Keseberg — Denton Discovering Gold — A Poem Composed while Dying — The Caches of Provisions Ivobbed 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 — Star\ing 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 Wear)' Chase — A Momentous Day — Stone and Cady Leave the Sufferers — A Mother Oflering 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 Bapliste Attempt to Escape —A Death more Cruel than Starvation .'
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CHAPTER XV.
A Mountain 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 — "Patty is Dying!" — 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 — Tlie Mercy of God — The Muti- lated Forms — The Dizziness of Delirium — Faith Rewarded — "There is Mrs Breen."
Page 183
CHAPTER.
XVH The Rescue — California Aroused — A Verba Pucna Newspaper — Tidings of Woe — A Cry of Distress — Noble Generosity — Subscriptions for the Donner Party — The First and Second Reliefs — Organization i)f the Third — The Dilemma — Voting to Abandon a Family — The Fatal Ayes — John Stark's Bravery — Carrying the Starved Children — A I'lea for the Relief Party
Page 191
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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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XLX 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 CIIAITKR XX Dates of the Rescues — Arrival of the rounh I\elicf — A Scene Beggaring Description — The Weallli 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 — "Bom under an Kvil Star" — "Stone Him! Slone 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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