Desperate
Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey
By: Rarick, Ethan
Pub Date: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN: 978-0195383317
List Price: $16.95 |
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This
sober look at one of America's pioneering tragedies is meticulously
detailed and presents the remarkable story - horror and adventure - of the
ill-fated Donner Party. |
The Donner
Party: Weathering the Storm
By: McLaughlin, Mark
Illustrated: Historical Photos
Pub Date: 2006
Publisher: MicMac Publishing
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 180
ISBN: 096572025X
List Price: $19.95 |
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This
unique look at the saga of the Donner
Party's struggle for survival s focuses on the extreme local weather
that challenged the snow-bound emigrants and their rescuers. |
The Perilous
Journey of
the Donner Party
By: Calabro, Marion
Pub Date:
Publisher: Random House
Binding: Hardcover
Pages:
ISBN: 0395866103
List Price: $20.00 |
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Winner
of the California Library Association's annual Beatty
Award
for a young adult book that best promotes awareness of
California and its history,
this new account of the Donner Party ordeal is told
through the eyes of 13-year-old survivor Virginia Reed. |
Snow Mountain Passage
By Houston, James
Pub Date: 2001
Publisher: Random House
Binding: Hardcover/Trade
Pages:
ISBN: 0375411038
List Price: $24.00/$14.00 |
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This
is historical fiction at its best! Told alternately from the
perspective of a grown Patty Reed (who was just a girl during the
crossing) and of her father, James, this story conveys the drama of the
Reed family's migration west with the
Donner Party. Banished from the group, James Reed made it to Sutter's
Fort before the heavy winter of 1846 where his rescue effort had to
wait out weather and political turmoil. This is truly a magnificent
work of fiction that reveals much about history and humanity during these
exciting times. |
The Archaeology of the Donner Party
By Hardesty, Donald L.
Pub Date: 1997
Publisher: Univ. of Nevada Press
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 156, photos
ISBN: 087417290X
List Price: $18.95 |
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Archaeologist Donald
Hardesty and his colleagues examine the history of the Donner Party from
the perspectives of their several disciplines. In a provocative
introductory essay, the author outlines the work of previous scholars, and
summarizes still-unresolved questions that archaeology is uniquely
qualified to address - most specifically the exact locations and layouts of
the mountain camps and the issue of cannibalism allegedly committed by
some of the survivors. |
Camp of Death:
The Donner Party
Mountain
Camp 1846-47
By Thornton, J. Quinn
Pub Date: 1996
Publisher: Vistabooks
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 96
ISBN: 0896460371
List Price: $9.95
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First published in 1849
by Harper Brothers in a two-volume book dealing mainly
with other matters of interest to emigrants, settlers, and prospectors in
or on their way out west. Thornton's record has good consistency with
later published accounts of this horrific tragedy. |
The Diary of Patrick Breen: One of the
Donner Party
Edited by Teggart, Frederick J.
Pub Date: 1996
Publisher: Vistabooks
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 16
ISBN: 0896460487
List Price: $3.95 |
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Only a few of the
survivors of the Donner Party's winter camp ever wrote about their
experience, and then after the fact. Thus, Breen's first-hand account is
especially important to history. Of particular interest is the front cover
that shows a portion of this diary in Breen's own hand. |
Across the Plains in
the Donner Party
By Reed Murphy, Virginia
Pub Date: 1995
Publisher: Vistabooks
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 64
Iillustrated: Yes
ISBN: 0896460630
List Price: $7.95 |
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A
personal narrative of
the overland trip to California, recalled 45 years after the tragic
events, when Reed was a woman of 56 and the mother of six children
residing in San Jose, CA. Written at the request of Robert Underwood
Johnson, editor for the national magazine Century, this account was first
published in 1891 as part of a series of first-person articles which
included
writings by John Muir and others who made Western American history. |
The Pioneer
(Donner) Monument:
The Origin of a Statue
By: Foley, Doris
Illustrated: Historical Photos
Pub Date: 1982
Publisher: Nevada County Historical Society
Binding: Quality
Pages: 40
ISBN: 0915641100
List Price: $7.50 |
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Erected
in 1918 to honor the 19th-century pioneers, this monument was placed on
the site where the Donner Party spent their ill-fated winter. This small
but comprehensive publication tells the intriguing story of the struggle
between the members of the committee responsible for creating the
statue. |
Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner
Party
By Laurgaard, Rachel K.
Pub Date: 1956
Publisher: Tomato Enterprises
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 144
ISBN: 0961735724
List Price: $9.95 |
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Told from Patty's doll's
perspective, this story is skillfully pieced together from authentic
letters, journals, and reminiscences of Donner Party survivors. It is also
the heartwarming tale of how a little girl's love for her precious doll
can transcend all of life's dangers. Also available is a Teacher's
Guide priced at $11.95, perfect for any classroom. |
History of the Donner Party:
A Tragedy of
the Sierra
By McGlashan, C.F.
Pub Date: 1947
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 261
ISBN: 0804703671
List Price: $23.95 |
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Originally published in
1880, this book was modified in 1947 when editors contributed an introduction, maps, editors' notes,
and a bibliography. This book is one of the standards by which all other
Donner Party books are measured. A must-purchase for anyone interested in
what happened on the fateful winter of 1846-47. |
Ordeal by Hunger:
The Story of the
Donner
Party
By Stewart, George R.
Pub Date: 1936, Renewed 1988
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Binding: Trade paper
Pages: 392
ISBN: 0395611598
List Price: $14.95
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Incorporating the diaries
of the survivors and other contemporary documents, Stewart wrote one of
the definitive histories of that ill-fated band of pioneers. An
astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the
final press of circumstance. Stewart taught for over fifty years at the
University of California at Berkeley. He is also the author of Fire, a
perennial seller at Bookshelf Stores. |
