History of the Donner Party. C. F. McGlashan

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       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 СКАЧАТЬ