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 ...

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 ...

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 ...