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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.
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Jack Yallop
reviewed Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate on February 29, 2020 Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate
This was so so interesting. Usually books that describe the events of the Donner Party spend little time recounting what happened after the recovery parties, and when it does recount what happened, it was mostly to share in the scandal of Keseberg's tarnished reputation and the gossip spread about this horrific event. But what Eliza's account offers is a look at her time growing up in which her sisters were separated, her parents were dead, and she had to learn to grow up after being on starvation rations. Â
As many other historians have noted, because the events of the Donner Party happened when she was so young, Eliza drew a large amount of information from other members of the party and their writings about what happened. But what such drawing offers is then her own spin on it, her saying this happened and I do or don't remember it, and this is how I feel about it having happened regardless. Such a first-person account is so incredibly necessary for such a harrowing time, and it truly goes to show just how important it is for constructing narratives that incorporate the subjective opinions of its survivors. Â
Overall, I was so engrossed in this book, so excited to see just what happened and why, and to see the opinions of a girl who wasn't allowed any because of her age at the time. I'm glad that I've added this to my repertoire of Donner Party books that I've read, and I can't wait to see what else lies out there on this topic.
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