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Published on: 2009-03-01
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Original language: English

Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846–47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen’s story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman’s life writ large, one whose impossible balancing of self, motherhood, and marriage spoke to Burton’s own experience.This book tells of Burton’s search to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner for herself. A graceful mingling of history and memoir, Searching for Tamsen Donner follows Burton and her husband, with their five daughters, on her journey along Tamsen’s path. From Tamsen’s birthplace in Massachusetts to North Carolina, where she lost her first family in the space of three months; to Illinois, where she married George Donner; and finally to the fateful Oregon Trail, Burton recovers one woman’s compelling history through a modern-day family’s adventure into realms of ultimately timeless experiences. Here Burton has for the first time collected and published together all seventeen of Tamsen’s known letters. Oregon In 1846 Emigrants To Oregon In 1846 c ompiled by Stephenie Flora copyright 2004 . I will be adding an overview of the 1846 emigration at a later time. The Donner Party Donner Party Descendants The survivors of the Donner Party settled throughout California and some became quite famous. As it happens I used to live in Elk Grove ... Donner Party - Wikipedia The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a ... Historic Photographs & Images The Newburyport Blog Historic photographs and images of Newburyport MA ... Fortunately Joe Callahan wrote an article in the Newburyport Daily News in 2009 with lots of information about ...
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