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Box 2

 Container

Contains 31 Results:

Donner Party, 2001-2004

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 29
Identifier: Folder 29
Scope and Contents

Notes, correspondence, and computer printouts on acquiring Donnerana. Mostly through Ebay, 12/3/2003 through 2/26/2004. Also contains a photocopy of a letter to the editor in Overland Journal.

Dates: Created: 2001-2004

Trailing the Donners by Frank Mullen Jr., 1999

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 30
Identifier: Folder 30
Scope and Contents

Tour guide booklet and brief history of the California trail. Personal note written to Don Springer from Frank Mullen Jr. on July 29th, 1999 Added to collection 08-14-14

Dates: Created: 1999

The Hastings Cutoff by Roy D. Tea, 1996

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
Scope and Contents

Short guide booklet detailing the geography and history of the area between Grantsville and Donner Springs, Utah. Includes a printed email regarding Donner Party event. Added to collection on 09/11/2014

Dates: Created: 1996

[Donner TV Movie Listing, and Pamphlet], 1992

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents

Donner book order form, undated; TV guide listing, dated 10/25/1992; Shoe ad, undated; pamphlet on the Donner Party, undated.

Dates: Created: 1992

[Donner Family Reunion 2006], 2004

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding a possible Donner Family Reunion in 2006. One letter undated, the other dated 7/23/2004.

Dates: Created: 2004

Ordeal By Hunger and "The Smart Ones Got Through," by George R. Stewart, 1955-1964

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of pages from: George R. Stewart. Ordeal By Hunger, 1964 edition, Massachusetts: Riverside Press, 1936, and George R. Stewart. "The Smart Ones Got Through." American Heritage. 6, No.4 (June 1955): 61-108.

Dates: Created: 1955-1964

Palace Wagon Family by Margaret Sutton, 1957

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of: Margaret Sutton. Palace Wagon Family. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.

Dates: Created: 1957

Names on the Land and Donner Pass by George R. Stewart, 1945-1964

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of: George R. Stewart. Names on the Land. New York: Random House, 1945 and George R. Stewart. Donner Pass. California: Lane Book Company, 1964.

Dates: Created: 1945-1964

For Fear We Shall Perish, by Joseph Pigney, and "The Donner Party" by Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of: Joseph Pigney. For Fear We Shall Perish. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc, 1961, and an article on the Donner Party from the Encyclopedia Britannica Library Research Team, undated.

Dates: Created: 1961

[Donner Party Articles], 1870-1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of seven magazine, journal, and newspaper articles relating to the Donner Party, spanning the dates July 1870, September 1887, 5/21/1896, 3/30/1930, 1938, 9/8/1940, and 2/8/1956.

Dates: Created: 1870-1956