Box 2
Contains 31 Results:
Donner Party, 2001-2004
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.
Trailing the Donners by Frank Mullen Jr., 1999
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
The Hastings Cutoff by Roy D. Tea, 1996
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
[Donner TV Movie Listing, and Pamphlet], 1992
Donner book order form, undated; TV guide listing, dated 10/25/1992; Shoe ad, undated; pamphlet on the Donner Party, undated.
[Donner Family Reunion 2006], 2004
Correspondence regarding a possible Donner Family Reunion in 2006. One letter undated, the other dated 7/23/2004.
Ordeal By Hunger and "The Smart Ones Got Through," by George R. Stewart, 1955-1964
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.
Palace Wagon Family by Margaret Sutton, 1957
Photocopy of: Margaret Sutton. Palace Wagon Family. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
Names on the Land and Donner Pass by George R. Stewart, 1945-1964
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.
For Fear We Shall Perish, by Joseph Pigney, and "The Donner Party" by Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961
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.
[Donner Party Articles], 1870-1956
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.