History of the Donner party
Subtitle: a tragedy of the Sierra
By: by C. F. McGlashan.
Contributors: Scattergood, David, egr.; Photo Eng. Co.,
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: H.S. Crocker Co.
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Sacramento
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Donner Party; Cannibalism; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Frontier and pioneer life
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 Alanned 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
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; title: 8 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
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 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
pagenum: 51; label: CHAPTER VI
title: Endeavors to Cross the Mountains — Discouraging Failures — Ekldy Kills a Bear — Making Snow-Shoes — Who composed the "Forlorn IIoj)e" — 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
title: 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 — 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— Trac'.^s Marked by Blood -Nine Days w ithout Food '
pagenum: 78; 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-iwo Teet High — Seven Nursing Babes at Donner Lake — A Devou< 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 Com- panion — 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; 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
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 Soli- tary 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 Oftering 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 — ley 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; 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."
pagenum: 183; label: CHAPTER
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
pagenum: 191; 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 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."
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 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
pagenum: 205; title: 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— "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
pagenum: 216