History of the Donner party
Subtitle: a tragedy of the Sierra
By: by C.F. McGlashan.
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: H.S. Crocker
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Sacramento
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Donner Party; Overland journeys to the Pacific
Table of contents: label: CHAPTER I
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
pagenum: 15; label: CHAPTER II
title: 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
pagenum: 24; label: CHAPTER III
title: 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 IV
title: Gravelly Ford — The Character of James F Reed — Causes which Led to the Reed- Snyder Tragedy — John Snyder's Popularity— The Fatal Altercation — 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
pagenum: 41; label: CHAPTER V
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 Stanton — 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 Happened to be Built— A Thrilling Sketch of a Solitary Winter— Putting up Shelters — The Donners Have Nothing but Tents — Fishing for Trout
pagenum: 51; label: CHAPTER VI
title: 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
pagenum: 64; label: CHAPTER VII
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— The Indians Refuse to Eat— Lewis and Salvador Flee for Their Lives— Killing a Deer — Tracks Marked by Blood— Nine Days without Food
pagenum: 78; label: CHAPTER VIII
title: 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
pagenum: 89; label: CHAPTER IX
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
pagenum: 105; label: CHAPTER X
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 Companion — Howlings of Gray Wolves — A Deer Rendezvous — A Midnight Thief— Frightening Indians— The Diary of the First Relief Party
pagenum: 113; label: CHAPTER XI
title: 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
pagenum: 121; label: CHAPTER XII
title: 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
pagenum: 137; label: CHAPTER XIII
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 Solitary Indian — Patty Reed and Her Father — Starving Children Lying in Bed — Mrs Graves' Money still Buried at Donner Lake
pagenum: 148; label: CHAPTER XIV
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
pagenum: 163; label: CHAPTER XV
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
pagenum: 170; label: CHAPTER XVI
title: 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 Mutilated Forms — The Dizziness of Delirium — Faith Rewarded — "There is Mrs Breen."
pagenum: 183; label: CHAPTER XVII
title: The Rescue — California Aroused — A Yerba 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
pagenum: 191; label: CHAPTER XVIII
title: 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 Husband'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."
pagenum: 199; label: CHAPTER XIX
title: False Ideas about the Donner Party — Accused of Six Murders — Interviews with Lewis Keseberg — His Statement — An Educated German — A Predestined 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 — Suspended over a Hidden Stream — "Where is Donner's Money?" — Extorting a Confession
pagenum: 205; label: CHAPTER XX
title: 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 Entity of the Relief Party— "Bom under an Evil Star"— "Stone Him Stone Him!"— Fire and Flood — Keseberg's Reputation for Honesty — A Prisoner in His Own House — The Most Miserable of Men
pagenum: 216; label: CHAPTER XXI
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
pagenum: 225; label: CHAPTER XXII
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 Devotion — A Remarkable Proposal— Twenty-six Present Survivors — McCutchen — Keseberg — The Graves Family — The Murphys — Naming Marysville — The Reeds— The Breens
pagenum: 236; label: CHAPTER XXIII
title: The Orphan Children of George and Tamsen Donner — Sutter, the Philanthropist — "If Mother Would Only Come" — Christian and Mary Brunner — 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
pagenum: 247