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Donner Party Books
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,390 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.60 — 34,078 ratings — published 2018
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,354 ratings — published 2008
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,925 ratings — published 1936
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,633 ratings — published 2017
Old Bones (Nora Kelly, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.07 — 28,409 ratings — published 2019
History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.77 — 929 ratings — published 1907
To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,035 ratings — published 2016
Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.78 — 587 ratings — published 1956
Across the Plains in the Donner Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.62 — 273 ratings — published 1995
When Winter Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,231 ratings — published 2018
The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.89 — 425 ratings — published 1911
Snow Mountain Passage (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.65 — 514 ratings — published 2001
The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 (My Name Is America)
by (shelved 4 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.80 — 704 ratings — published 2001
An Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published 2011
Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.92 — 25 ratings — published 1996
Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,462 ratings — published 2013
The Donner Party: Weathering the Storm (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.37 — 27 ratings — published 2007
The Archaeology Of The Donner Party (Shepperson Series in Nevada History)
by (shelved 2 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.81 — 26 ratings — published 1997
The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.35 — 72 ratings — published 1997
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as donner-party)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,045 ratings — published 2020
Searching for Tamsen Donner (American Lives)
by (shelved 2 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.79 — 216 ratings — published 2009
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.90 — 286 ratings — published 1999
Winter of Entrapment: A New Look at the Donner Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as donner-party)
avg rating 3.56 — 39 ratings — published 1992
Diary of Patrick Breen 1 of the Donner Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published 1986
Forlorn Hope: A Haunted History of the Donner Party (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.72 — 39 ratings — published
A Forlorn Hope: The Doomed Wagon Train of the Donner Party (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.44 — 45 ratings — published
Fearful Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1987
Excavation of the Donner-Reed Wagons: Historic Archaelogy Along the Hastings Cutoff (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1999
The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2001
What I Saw in California (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.17 — 30 ratings — published
Overland in 1846, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 1993
Overland in 1846, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.89 — 19 ratings — published 1993
What Was the Donner Party? (What Was?)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.87 — 148 ratings — published
Snowbound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.44 — 86 ratings — published 1948
Salt Desert Trails (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 1930
From The Desk of Truckee's C.F. McGlashan: His Letters to Eliza Donner Houghton, Donner Party Survivor, Investigative Report of a Massacred Wagon Train, Truckee Tahoe Adventures and More (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published
Stories of Stanislaus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 1987
Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.89 — 37 ratings — published 1983
For Fear We Shall Perish
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 1961
Camp of Death: The Donner Party Mountain Camp, 1846-47 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 1978
All We Left Behind: Virginia Reed and the Donner Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.17 — 106 ratings — published 2013
The Mothers: A Documentary Novel of the Donner Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.16 — 70 ratings — published 1943
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,972 ratings — published 2017
I Escaped The Donner Party (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.42 — 125 ratings — published
Answer Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.21 — 750 ratings — published 2020
Westward Woman: My Two Thousand Mile Trek of Raw Discovery Along the DONNER TRAIL (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2011
Saving the Donner Party: And Forlorn Hope (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2014
Led to the Slaughter: The Donner Party Werewolves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.34 — 74 ratings — published 2014
The Year of Decision 1846 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as donner-party)
avg rating 4.14 — 426 ratings — published 1943
“The number of ways in which their children might come to harm along the trail was staggering . . .
Children fell under wagon wheels and were crushed to death or crippled for life. They wandered off into the tall grass and were never seen again. Occasionally they were abducted by Native Americans. Much more frequently they drowned when swept away by rivers their families were trying to ford. Drowning incidents were so common, in fact, that some mothers wrote their children's names in indelible ink on labels and sewed the labels into their children's clothes. It didn't prevent them from drowning, but it sometimes allowed a grieving mother to identify a body that had been in the water for too long. Children were bitten by rattlesnakes, struck by lightning, trampled by unruly oxen or horses, pummeled by hailstones as large as turkey eggs, and shot by the nearly daily accidental discharges of the guns that their fathers carried. They died of measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, malaria, infected cuts, food poisoning, mumps, and smallpox.”
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Children fell under wagon wheels and were crushed to death or crippled for life. They wandered off into the tall grass and were never seen again. Occasionally they were abducted by Native Americans. Much more frequently they drowned when swept away by rivers their families were trying to ford. Drowning incidents were so common, in fact, that some mothers wrote their children's names in indelible ink on labels and sewed the labels into their children's clothes. It didn't prevent them from drowning, but it sometimes allowed a grieving mother to identify a body that had been in the water for too long. Children were bitten by rattlesnakes, struck by lightning, trampled by unruly oxen or horses, pummeled by hailstones as large as turkey eggs, and shot by the nearly daily accidental discharges of the guns that their fathers carried. They died of measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, malaria, infected cuts, food poisoning, mumps, and smallpox.”
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“When all is said and done I think the story tells us that hope is the heroes domain, not the fools. Because we dare to hope, even when doing so might undo us. We leave the worlds we create behind us, swirling in our wakes, eternal and effervescent with the beauty of our aspirations.”
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
