Eliza Donner was a small child when her father, George Donner, captained the emigrant train that left Illinois for California in 1846. Writing sixty-eight years later, she follows the wagons past the Pawnee country and a fatal shortcut, through the winter trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada, the relief parties sent from the settlements, and the orphaned survivors’ new lives in California.
The most famous disaster of the overland trail, told from inside by one of the children who lived through it. Download the free EPUB.