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Title: History of the Donner Party
Author: C.F. McGlashan
Narrator: Bobbie Frohman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:54:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-2013
Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks
Genres: History, North America
Summary:
C.F. McGlashan was the newspaper publisher of the local paper in Truckee, California, the closest town to the Donner Pass. McGlashan interviewed the survivors of the Donner Party, gathered artifacts and amassed an enormous amount of secondary information.
Over an 18 month period, McGlashan published serialized articles in his paper and turned his articles into a book. History of the Donner Party is considered the definitive account of one of the most notorious treks in American history.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 01/Donner Lake — A Famous Tourist Resort — Building the Central Pacific — California's Skating Park — The Pioneers — The Organization of the Donner Party — Ho! for California! — A Mammoth Train — The Dangers by the Way — False Accounts of the Sufferings Endured — Complete Roll of the Company — Impostors Claiming to Belong to the Party — Killed by the Pawnees — An Alarmed Camp — Resin Indians — A Mother's Death
Chapter 02/Mrs.