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Lifetime:
1843 -
1922
Passed: ≈
102 years ago
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Author
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Eliza Houghton
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton was the youngest child of George Donner, one of two Springfield, Illinois, brothers who organized the ill-fated California-bound emigrant party that bore their name.
Books by Eliza Houghton
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
Memoir
Family
Young
America
Modern
Historical
United States
Imagination
Mountains
Germany
This is the story of the Donner party who left their home in Illinois to relocate to California in the 1840s. Due to a decision to take an alternate trail and a number of mishaps that delayed them along the way, they arrived in the Sierra Mountains l...