History of the Donner party
Subtitle: A tragedy of the Sierra
By: by C. F. McGlashan.
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: H. S. Crocker co.
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Sacramento
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Donner Party.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Table of contents: title: 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 Alarmed Camp — Resin Indians — A Mother's Death IS 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
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label: CHAPTER I; title: HI 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
pagenum: 34
label: CHAPTER; title: 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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label: CHAPTER IV; title: 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 Notliing but Tents — Fishing for Trout
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label: CHAPTER V; title: 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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label: CHAPTER; title: 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— Tlie Indians Refuse to Eat — Lewis and Salvador Flee for Their Lives— Killing a Deer — Tracks Marked by Blood —Nine Days without Food
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label: CHAPTER VII; pagenum: 89
title: 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 Donner'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 Devout Father — A Dying Boy — Sorrow and Suffering at the Cabins; title: 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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label: CHAPTER IX; title: 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 1 13 CHAPTER XI 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 — Yerba 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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label: CHAPTER X; pagenum: 137
title: 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; title: 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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label: CHAPTER XIII; title: 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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label: CHAPTER XIV; title: 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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label: CHAPTER XV; pagenum: 183
title: 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."; title: 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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label: CHAPTER; title: 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 Pier 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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label: CHAPTER; title: False Ideas about the Donner Party — Accused of Six Murders — Interviews vrith 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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label: CHAPTER XIX; pagenum: 216
title: 12 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 — "Bom under an Evil Star" — "Stone Him! Stone Him!" — Fire and Flood — Keseberg's Reputation for Hon- esty — A Prisoner in His Own House — The Most Miserable of Men; title: 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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label: CHAPTER XXI; title: 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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label: CHAPTER XXII; title: XXin 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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label: CHAPTER