History of the Donner Party. C. F. McGlashan

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       "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

       Beads and Arrow-heads

       A Quaint Bridle-bit

       Remarkable Action of Rust

       A Flint-Lock Pistol

       A Baby's Shoe

       The Resting Place of the Dead

       Vanishing Land-marks

Chapter I.

       Table of Contents

       Donner Lake

       A Famous Tourist Resort

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