Donner Party Book Stars. Definitely worth reading, though i honestly can't remember which of the two i liked better. On january 17th, sarah, now a widow, and six others of the party of eighteen who had set out from truckee lake a month before made it to johnson’s ranch, their originally intended destination in california.
She could either follow her family as they set off along the oregon trail. Til the donner party refused food from native americans who then kept their distance when they witnessed the donner party resort to cannibalism. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by george donner, they reached the sierra nevada mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them.
Donner and her surviving sisters raised each other in the san francisco bay area until 1861 when she married sherman otis houghton, the widower of another donner party survivor.
I've read quite a bit of what i call disaster literature. The harrowing saga of the donner party by daniel james brown. The harrowing saga of a donner party bride” provides the greatest insight i’ve yet to find on the reed donner tragedy. This is a quick read of the cascade events that led up to cannibalism while the ‘donner party’ emigrated west to california.