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
