[DOWNLOAD] Across the Plains in the Donner Party: A Personal Narrative
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"The greatest lesson learned from the disaster was best said by Virginia Reed, a member of the Donner Party." -Death in the Donner Party (2016)"Virginia's worst fear became real...when they encountered Indians on the trail." - The Best Land Under Heaven (2017)"Virginia was so weak that on the steeper slopes she had to climb on hands and knees." - Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (2013)"A gift for describing the Donner Party's plight in pithy, moving letters." - Desperate Passage (2008) “The only narrative published by a survivor of the ill fated party.” - Southwestern Journal of Education“An important contribution to Western history.” - University of Chicago School Review“Across the Plains in the Donner Party” is the story of the famous "Donner Expedition" across the plains to California in 1846 by the daughter of George Donner, captain of the party, and herself a member of it. In this narrative first published in 1891, Virginia Reed Murphy (1833 - 1921) depicts the ill-fated expedition as well as her life after reaching the settlements, the period covered being from 1846 to 1861.THE story of the Donner Lake party is well known. The chief facts are that in 1846, while California was still a foreign country — being then a province of Mexico — a party of home-seekers left Springfield, Illinois. The chief organizer of the expedition was James T. Reed, and two families of the name of Donner were among the first to join him. Owing to circumstances that afterwards occurred, the party became known by their name instead of by Reed's. When they reached Independence, Missouri, many others joined them, and a large band of men, women and children finally left that then frontier town with their faces earnestly set towards the Sea of the Setting Sun. When they reached Fort Bridger they were urged to take a cut-off, which, it was. said, would save them three hundred miles. A large majority decided to go by the old road, which they did, and ultimately reached California with comparative ease and safety. Eighty-four persons, led by the Reed and Donner families, took the cut-off and thereby entangled themselves in great difficulties, and occupied so much of their time that they were eventually caught in the snow on the eastern slope of the Sierras. But before they reached this point, several disasters of great moment occurred. Mr. Reed suffered a great loss in that, when crazed for want of water in crossing the Salt Lake Desert, his oxen rushed off beyond control, and were never seen again; and, a couple of weeks later, while at the sink of the Humbolt, more head of oxen were stolen from the party by the Indians. When finally caught in the snow, over forty of the party perished, and such were the dire straits to which the survivors were reduced for food. What now follows is the story of Mrs. Virginia Reed Murphy, Mr. Reed's daughter, who was then a child of twelve years of age.
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