Then I saw a different Donner Party book then another then another and now my afternoon is consumed by finding the VERY BEST ONE because I just cannot cope with the idea of wasting my time on a sub par Donner Party book. The Indifferent Stars Above.
The Expedition Of The Donner Party And Its Tragic Fate Houghton Eliza P Donner Johnson Kristin 9780803273047 Amazon Com Books
The Party did not exist when its members crossed the Missouri River in May 1846.
Donner party book. The short answer was A book about the Donner Party The long answer was A book about the folly and arrogance of Manifest Destiny as told through the eyes of its foot soldiers But if Id. Donner and her surviving sisters raised each other in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1861 when she married Sherman Otis Houghton the widower of another Donner Party survivor. This is the fictionalized biography a novel about the doomed Donner-Reed Party of 1846-47 emigrants to California who started through the Sierras too late in the year and with only a meager food supply were trapped in the mountains by twenty feet of snow and had to resort to cannibalizing those who had already died of starvation.
The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown. Ive read several books on the Donner party but none presented the information so succinctly and in such an easily understood way as Nathan Hales Donner Dinner Party. Anonymous wroteIve read two Donner Party books - the one you mentioned and The Indifferent Stars Above.
A cautionary tale at the time it becomes in Michael Walliss thorough and persuasive new telling The Best Land Under Heaven emblematic of the more shadowy aspects of Manifest Destiny. The Donner Partys Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick. At first they followed the established route -- The California Trail -- reaching Wyoming without incident.
Needing a book to read I decided to look it up on Amazon. Houghton became mayor of San Jose and a US. The Donner Dinner Party is another great book in this series and is fun engrossing and educational.
It was at that point that they took the advice of a trail guide Langsford Hastings who offered a quicker route. Ive read quite a bit of what I call disaster literature. Their personalities and character traits are dealt with which allows the reader to get more involved in the telling.
In April 1846 90 settlers left Springfield Ill headed for California. The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party BrideDefinitely worth reading though I honestly cant remember which of the two I liked better. The Donner Party was led by Jacob and George Donner.
The members of the Donner party come back to life. The cannibalism is handled tactfully and in the context of the story. Seriously thats how difficult Ive made this decision.
As a side note. Calabros offering is a fine addition to the Donner Party canon and particularly well suited to its young audience for whom the story of hardship and survival will be nothing. An exact accounting of the Donner Party is made difficult by deciding exactly when the Donner Party formed.
George Donner was elected Captain of the Party at the Little Sandy River on July 20 1846 but several people joined the Party later at Fort Bridger and in the Wasatch Mountains. The book was written in 1936 when one of the Donner Party was still alive but author Stewart apparently had also researched in great detail the diaries and the journals of the settlers involved in this tragic event. Considering how many people were in the Donner party trying to reach California after leaving Springfield IL it can be difficult to keep everyone straight.
At the same time the writer never goes for eloquence and melodrama which saves the book from becoming trite and cheap. Congressman and Donner went on to write a book about the Donner Partys demise. The saga of the Donner Party is one of the most horrific and fascinating events in the history of the American West.
The ordeal that the pioneers suffered is recreated in all. The three principal leaders of what came to be commonly called the Donner-Reed Party were the two Donner brothers George and Jacob Donner and James Reed an. The Donner-Reed Party was a pioneer wagon train which set out for California in May of 1846 and became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the winter of 1846.
However there are as many fun moments as there are tragic. The story of the Donner Party the ill-fated wagon train that faced horrific circumstances on its way to California is the subject of books videos and now Web sites. I was worried that the story would be too gruesome for kids or it would just be a story focusing on cannibalism.
