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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 Solitary 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 Offering 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
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
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 Mutilated Forms The
Dizziness of Delirium Faith Rewarded "There is Mrs. Breen."
Chapter XVII.
The Rescue California Aroused A Yerba 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
Chapter XVIII.
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 Husband'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
Predestined 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 Suspended
over a Hidden Stream "Where is Donner's Money?" Extorting a
Confession
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 "Born under an Evil Star" "Stone Him! Stone Him!" Fire
and Flood Keseberg's Reputation for Honesty A Prisoner in His Own
House The Most Miserable of Men
Chapter XXI.
Sketch of Gen. John A. Sutter The Donner Party's Benefactor The
Least and Most that Earth Can Bestow The Survivors' Request His
Birth and Parentage Efforts to Reach California New Helvetia A Puny
Army Uninviting Isolation Ross and Bodega Unbounded Generosity
Sutter's Wealth Effect of the Gold Fever Wholesale Robbery The
Sobrante Decision A "Genuine and Meritorious" Grant Utter Ruin
Hock Farm Gen. Sutter's Death Mrs. E. P. Houghton's Tribute
Chapter XXII.

The Death List The Forty-two Who Perished Names of Those Saved
Forty-eight Survivors Traversing Snow-belt Five Times Burying the
Dead An Appalling Spectacle Tamsen Donner's Last Act of Devotion
A Remarkable Proposal Twenty-six Present Survivors McCutchen
Keseberg The Graves Family The Murphys Naming Marysville The
Reeds The Breens
Chapter XXIII.
The Orphan Children of George and Tamsen Donner Sutter, the
Philanthropist "If Mother Would Only Come" Christian and Mary
Brunner An Enchanting Home "Can't You Keep Both of Us?" Eliza
Donner Crossing the Torrent Earning a Silver Dollar The Gold
Excitement Getting an Education Elitha C. Donner Leanna C. Donner
Frances E. Donner Georgia A. Donner Eliza P Donner
Chapter XXIV.
Yerba Buena's Gift to George and Mary Donner An Alcalde's
Negligence Mary Donner's Land Regranted Squatters Jump George
Donner's Land A Characteristic Land Law-suit Vexatious Litigation
Twice Appealed to Supreme Court, and once to United States Supreme
Court A Well-taken Law Point Mutilating Records A Palpable Erasure
Relics of the Donner Party Five Hundred Articles Buried Thirty-two
Years Knives, Forks, Spoons Pretty Porcelain Identifying Chinaware