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This book covers the ill fated journey of the Donner Party in their quest for a new life in California. The narrator is Tamsen Donner, who documents the trip in a journal/letter written to her sister who stayed behind. While the Donners and their five daughters are the main focus, a lot of the story is about other members who joined and left the party for various reasons. Burton did a great deal of research on the historical facts, but the truth is that there is still a lot of mystery surroundin
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This is a fictional account of the infamous Donner party and their westward bound expedition gone horribly wrong. The story is told through journal entries of wife/mother Tamsen Donner. I've just finished the galley version, so there could be some differences in the final copy. While I liked this book, I wanted to like it more. I found the timeline hard to follow, jumping around from the characters present circumstances, to various pasts, anywhere from two days prior to Tamsen's childhood, with
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Apr 20, 2010
Julie
marked it as to-read
