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Author : Eliza P. Donner Houghton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265311493
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party, and Its Tragic Fate (Classic Reprint) written by Eliza P. Donner Houghton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Expedition of the Donner Party, and Its Tragic Fate Who can wonder at my indignation and grief in little girlhood, when I was told of acts of brutality, in humanity, and cannibalism, attributed to those starved parents, who in life had shared their last morsels of food with helpless companions? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1911 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza Houghton (b. 1843) was the youngest child of George Donner, one of two Springfield, Illinois, brothers who organized the ill-fated California-bound emigrant party that bore their name. Eliza and her older sisters were rescued by relief parties that made their way to the stranded travellers at Donner Lake, but their parents perished, and the girls were left to make their way alone in the West. The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate (1911) begins with Mrs. Houghton's account of her childhood and the family's tragic overland journey, and rescue. She continues with her life as an orphan, first at Fort Sutter, and then with a family in Sonoma and with her older half-sister in Sacramento. She describes the impact of the gold rush and new immigration on the area, farm work and domestic work, and her own education in public schools and St. Catherine's Convent in Benicia. She writes at length of the emotional scars caused by contemporary rumors of cannibalism among the Donner Party and offers full accounts of Donner family history as well as the background of her husband, Samuel Houghton. An appendix contains several documentary sources for the history of the Donner Party.

Author : Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789355341037
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Author : Eliza Houghton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414292496
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate written by Eliza Houghton and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781536975192
Total Pages : 138 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out to California in May 1846. Unfortunately, due to several mistakes and accidents along the way, they were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter. The group was stranded for over four months and had to go to tragic lengths to survive. The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate is a detailed book written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, one of the fortunate people who survived.

Author : Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781421927756
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party And Its Tragic Fate written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eliza P. Donner Houghton
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781494189327
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party written by Eliza P. Donner Houghton and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.

Author : Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803273047
Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George and Tamsen Donner and their children, among the very first to leave from Illinois, joined emigrants headed to California in the spring of 1846. Beyond Fort Bridger, Captain Donner led a large party through a much-advertised shortcut. Delays and difficulties caused them to be snowbound in the High Sierras, facing the grim specter of starvation and extreme suffering. Though only four years old at the time of the expedition, the captain’s youngest daughter, Eliza Donner, would never forget the excitement of crossing the prairies—or the horror of that winter. Details impressed on her young mind were later substantiated by the recollections of her older sisters and other survivors. Her book, originally published in 1911, is an intimate and authoritative account of the Donner disaster. George and Tamsen Donner and those who shared their fate are fully humanized in the telling. Eliza also relates what happened to her and a sister after being rescued and what it was like to grow up in a world that turned the Donners into a grisly legend.

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
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ISBN 13 : 9781542768245
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Donner Party written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts and diary entries made by participants about the journey *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Like fated trains of other epochs whose privations, sufferings, and self-sacrifices have added renown to colonization movements and served as danger signals to later wayfarers, that party began its journey with song of hope, and within the first milestone of the promised land ended it with a prayer for help. 'Help for the helpless in the storms of the Sierra Nevada Mountains!'" - Eliza P. Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most consequential migrations in history, and for countless people back east, the West represented opportunities for adventure, independence, and fortune. Even in the 21st century, Americans look back on the era fondly, even romantically, and millions are familiar with the popular game that reignited interest in the Oregon Trail Of course, it's easy for people with modern transportation to comfortably reminisce about the West, because many pioneers discovered that the traveling was fraught with various kinds of obstacles and danger, including bitter weather, potentially deadly illnesses, and hostile Native Americans, not to mention an unforgiving landscape that famous American explorer Stephen Long deemed "unfit for human habitation." 19th century Americans were all too happy and eager for the transcontinental railroad to help speed their passage west and render overland paths obsolete. One of the main reasons people yearned for new forms of transportation is because of the most notorious and tragic disasters in the history of westward travel. While people still romanticize the Wild West, many Americans are still all too familiar with the fate of the Donner Party, a group of 87-90 people that met with disaster in the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the winter of 1846-1847. The party knew the journey would take months, but early snowfalls in the mountains left dozens of people trapped in snow drifts that measured several feet, stranding them in a manner that made it virtually impossible for them to go any further for several weeks. Inevitably, as the Donner Party's supplies began to run low, there was little hope of acquiring new provisions high up in the mountains, and even worse, their location and the technology of the time also made it virtually impossible for relief expeditions to reach them. Due to exposure and lack of food, the health of many in the party began to deteriorate quickly in the tough winter conditions, and the animals brought along with the group died at alarming rates. Most of the men who set out to try to get help died en route, while the families back in camp tried to cope with dozens of deaths suffered by young and old alike. As a few able-bodied people went for help, the people who remained back in their wagons resorted to the most desperate of measures in attempts to either stay alive or keep their children alive. Some members of the Donner Party fought with each other, occasionally fatally, and the journey is perhaps best known today for accounts of cannibalism. One member of the group noted in his diary in February 1847, "Mrs Murphy said here yesterday that thought she would Commence on Milt. & eat him. I dont that she has done so yet, it is distressing." All the while, the plight of the Donner Party made news across the nation, even before the surviving members were rescued and brought to safety, and by the time the doomed expedition was over, less than 50 of them made it to California. As writer Ethan Rarick summed it up, "more than the gleaming heroism or sullied villainy, the Donner Party is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous".

Author : Albert Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
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Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: