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Searching for Tamsen Donner (Nonfiction)

by | Apr 2, 2009 | Western Books

Gabrielle Burton, University of Nebraska Press, $26.95, Hardcover.
This odd-but-interesting book provides an easy way of briefing someone on the tragic story of the Donner party, trapped in winter snows during 1846-47 in California’s Sierra Nevada. The company was made notorious by its survivors adopting cannibalism to save themselves from starvation. The author, perhaps because of her background in feminist movements of


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