a Salt Lake City-based Donner historian and editor of several books containing primary sources about the Donner Party, ...

The Donner Party memorial in Truckee, Nevada county, CA. A few miles north of Lake Tahoe. 2012, Library of Congress. Objectives: Students will examine how for many, the Donner Party’s story ...

From November 20, 1846 to March 1, 1847, Irish immigrant Patrick Breen, a Donner party member, kept a diary of his ordeal in the mountains. Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and their ...

Five books about public policy are shortlisted for the 2024 Donner Prize. (University of Toronto Press, Between The Lines, UBC Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Cambridge University Press ...

or be killed," said Condon in a statement about the new book. "We all know how the Donner Party played out, but we don't know how things work out for the Janson family and that's a story that the ...