Searching for Tamsen Donner
By: Gabrielle Burton.
Series: American lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780803222854
Subjects: Donner, Tamsen, -- 1801-1847; Donner, Tamsen, -- 1801-1847 -- Correspondence; Burton, Gabrielle -- Travel -- West (U.S.); Burton, Gabrielle -- Family; Donner Party; Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence; Frontier and pioneer life -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Overland journeys to the Pacific; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.
Description: "This book tells of Burton?s search to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner for herself. A graceful mingling of history and memoir, Searching for Tamsen Donner follows Burton and her husband, with their five daughters, on her journey along Tamsen?s path. From Tamsen?s birthplace in Massachusetts to North Carolina, where she lost her first family in the space of three months; to Illinois, where she married George Donner; and finally to the fateful Oregon Trail, Burton recovers one woman?s compelling history through a modern-day family?s adventure into realms of ultimately timeless experiences"--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.