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The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

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  1. Preface

    6:36

  2. Chapter I

    16:06

  3. Chapter II

    16:57

  4. Chapter III

    16:11

  5. Chapter IV

    15:01

  6. Chapter V

    24:20

  7. Chapter VI

    17:48

  8. Chapter VII

    5:50

  9. Chapter VIII

    14:55

  10. Chapter IX

    25:46

  11. Chapter X

    14:21

  12. Chapter XI

    6:06

  13. Chapter XII

    7:56

  14. Chapter XIII

    8:13

  15. Chapter XIV

    12:23

  16. Chapter XV

    14:57

  17. Chapter XVI

    9:06

  18. Chapter XVII

    14:20

  19. Chapter XVIII

    13:43

  20. Chapter XIX

    14:45

  21. Chapter XX

    25:01

  22. Chapter XXI

    17:56

  23. Chapter XXII

    12:13

  24. Chapter XXIII

    21:21

  25. Chapter XXIV

    18:16

  26. Chapter XXV

    9:37

  27. Chapter XXVI

    15:06

  28. Chapter XXVII

    13:48

  29. Chapter XXVIII

    6:39

  30. Chapter XXIX

    13:30

  31. Chapter XXX

    7:07

  32. Chapter XXXI

    21:02

  33. Chapter XXXII

    11:36

  34. Chapter XXXIII

    12:24

  35. Chapter XXXIV

    14:27

  36. Chapter XXXV

    19:24

  37. Chapter XXXVI

    7:22

  38. Chapter XXXVII

    3:50

  39. Chapter XXXVIII

    14:04

  40. Appendix I

    20:15

  41. Appendix II

    13:06

  42. Appendix III

    16:24

  43. Appendix IV

    21:24

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At scarcely four years old, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton experienced the hunger and confinement of a snowbound emigrant camp in the Sierra Nevada. Writing in 1911, she combines childhood recollections with information gathered from older survivors and the men who brought relief. Her account follows the Donner Party's passage toward California, the hardships of its mountain camps and the efforts to reach the stranded families.

The memoir also records the California of her later childhood. In Sonoma, adobe houses, red roofs, horseback gatherings and elaborate clothing make a detailed picture of daily surroundings. Memories of General Vallejo's home and the town's changing flags connect these personal impressions with a wider history of political change. Houghton's purpose is partly corrective: she challenges sensational accounts of the disaster through remembered care, family sacrifice and research. Readers interested in overland migration will find both a survivor's perspective on a crisis and recollections of life in early California.

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Pages
263
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
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Jacquerie, Alana Jordan, Donna Stewart and others