Devoted to the pains and pleasures of being female, the Museum of the Revolution - with exhibits such as "The Menstrual Show" (performed in redface), "The Hard-to-Please Momma," and "The Litany of th
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 chi
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 chi
The Donner PartyYou know how some died.Here’s how some lived. “My heart is big with hope and impatient with desire.”—Tamsen Donner, a letter to her sister In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her hu
A novel based on the Donner Party--a group of more than 80 pioneers who were snowbound in 1846 in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains, during which some of them resorted to cannibalism--is narrated through th
