History of the Donner Party. C. F. McGlashan

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Detailed Contents.

       Table of 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

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