My own 9 year old daughter read the book to prepare for her trip to Sutter's Fort, where she portrayed Virginia Reed. My daughter enjoyed the book almost as much as I did. Published by Clarion Books. The 3rd edition of Winter of Entrapment by Joseph A. King has been published posthumously. The late Prof. King offered a new perspective on the Donner Party, and explored the biases in the previous histories.
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Artifacts include William Foster's rifle, right, Tamsen Donner's china, and wagon parts excavated from the Salt Desert. The bookstore sells many of the histories of the Donner Party. They are free to the public. The Oregon-California Trails Association conducts numerous events to preserve the emigrant trail. The survivors of the Donner Party settled throughout California, and some became quite famous.