History of the Donner Party | Page 2

an honest effort - toward the truth, and as such is
given to the world.
C. F. McGlashan.
Truckee, Cal., June 30, 1879.

Contents.
Chapter I.
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
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
Chapter III.
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
Chapter IV.
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 Banishment 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. 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.
Chapter VI.
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 Breastpin Stanton's Last Poem
Chapter VII.
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
Chapter VIII.
Starvation at Donner Lake Preparing Rawhide for Food Eating the
Firerug 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
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
Rhodes 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 Companion
Howlings 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 Yerba
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
Chapter XII.
A Wife's Devotion Tamsen Donner's Early Life The Early Settlers of
Sangamon County An Incident in School Teaching and Knitting 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