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An edition of History of the Donner party: a tragedy of the Sierra (1880)

History of the Donner party

a tragedy of the Sierra.

by Charles Fayette McGlashan

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An edition of History of the Donner party: a tragedy of the Sierra (1880)

History of the Donner party

a tragedy of the Sierra.

by Charles Fayette McGlashan

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"The delirium preceding death by starvation is full of strange phantasies."

Publish Date

1947

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Language

English

Pages

261

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Table of Contents

8 CHAPTER IV r 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

CHAPTER V. 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

CHAPTER VI. Endeavors to Cross the Mountains — Discouraging Failures — Ekldy Kills a Bear — Making Snow-Shoes — Who composed the "Forlorn Hoik;" — 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 Elarly Life — His Charity and Self-sacrifice — The Diamond Breast-pin — Stanton*s Last Poem

CHAPTER. VH A Wife's Devotion — The Smoky Gorge — Caught in a Storm — Casting Lots to See Who should Die — A Hidden l^ver — 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 BIoimI -Nine Days without Footl

9 CHAPTER VIII Starvation at Donner Lake — Preparing Rawhide for Food — Elating the Fire- rug — Shoveling Snow off the Beds — Pla)ring they were Tea-cups o*" Custard — A Starving Baby — Pleading with Silent Eloquence — Patrick Breen's Diary — Jacob Donner*s Death — A Child's Vow — A Christmas Dinner — Ia>sI on the Summits — A Stump Twenty-two Teet High — Seven Nursing Babes at Donner L&ke — A Devou* Father — A Dying Boy — Sorrow and Suffering at the Cabins

CHAPTER IX. 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 KJiodes — A Thirty-two Days* Journey — Organizing the First Relief Party — Alcalde Sinclair's Address — Capt R P Tucker's Companions

CHAPTER X. 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 — 1 lowlings of Gray Wolves — A Deer Rendezvous — ^A Midnight Thief — Frightening Indians — The Diary of the First Relief Party

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 — 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

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

CHAPTER XIII. 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

CHAPTER XIV. 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 E^scape— A Death.more Cruel than Starvation

CHAPTER XV. 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

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."

CHAPTER. XVIL The Rescue — California Aroused — A Verba Ducna 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

CHAPTER. 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."

• ' CHAPTER XIX 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 — Tamscn Donner's Death — Going to Get the Treasure — Sus- pended over a Hidden Stream — "Where is Donner's Money?" — Ex- torting a Confession

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. xii-xlviii.
The facsimile is a photolithographic reproduction of the 4th ed., with imprint: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft, 1881.

Published in: Stanford, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 917.8
Library of Congress: F868.N5 M33 1947

The Physical Object

Pagination: xxxi p., facsim. (261 p. illus., ports.), xxxiii-lvii p.
Number of pages: 261

Edition Identifiers

Open Library: OL6026819M
Internet Archive: historydonnerpa00mcglgoog
LCCN: 48001005
OCLC/WorldCat: 2230488
LibraryThing: 356839

Work Identifiers

Work ID: OL5282611W

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