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The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate, by Eliza P The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton THE EXPEDITION OF THE DONNER PARTY AND ITS TRAGIC FATE THE EXPEDITION OF THE DONNER PARTY AND ITS TRAGIC FATE BY ELIZA P. DONNER HOUGHTON ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1911 Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1911 The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton http://www.loc.gov/resource/calbk.187 Published November, 1911 M. F. Hall Printing Company Chicago To My Husband and my Children and to My Sister Georgia This Book is Lovingly Dedicated vii PREFACE OUT of the sunshine and shadows of sixty-eight years come these personal recollections of California—of the period when American civilization first crossed its mountain heights and entered its overland gateways. I seem to hear the tread of many feet, the lowing of many herds, and know they are the re-echoing sounds of the sturdy pioneer homeseekers. Travel-stained and weary, yet triumphant and happy, most of them reach their various destinations, and their trying experiences and valorous deeds are quietly interwoven with the general history of the State. Not so, however, the “Donner Party,” of which my father was captain. Like fated trains of other epochs whose privations, sufferings, and self-sacrifices have added renown to colonization movements and served as danger signals to later wayfarers, that party began its journey with song The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton http://www.loc.gov/resource/calbk.187 of hope, and within the first milestone of the promised land ended it with a prayer for help. “Help for the helpless in the storms of the Sierra Nevada Mountains!” And I, a child then, scarcely four years of age, was too young to do more than watch and suffer with other viii children the lesser privations of our snow-beleaguered camp; and with them survive, because the fathers and mothers hungered in order that the children might live. Scenes of loving care and tenderness were emblazoned on my mind. Scenes of anguish, pain, and dire distress were branded on my brain during days, weeks, and months of famine, —famine which reduced the party from eighty-one souls to forty-five survivors, before the heroic relief men from the settlements could accomplish their mission of humanity. Who better than survivors knew the heart-rending circumstances of life and death in those mountain camps? Yet who can wonder that tenderest recollections and keenest heartaches silenced their quivering lips for many years; and left opportunities for false and sensational details to be spread by morbid collectors of food for excitable brains, and for prolific historians who too readily accepted exaggerated and unauthentic versions as true statements? Who can wonder at my indignation and grief in little girlhood, when I was told of acts of brutality, inhumanity, and cannibalism, attributed to those starved parents, who in life had shared their last morsels of food with helpless companions? Who can wonder that I then resolved that, “When I grow to be a woman I shall tell the story of my party so clearly that no one can doubt its truth”? Who can doubt that my resolve has been ever kept fresh in mind, by eager research for verification and by ix diligent communication with older survivors, and rescuers sent to our relief, who answered my many questions and cleared my obscure points? And now, when blessed with the sunshine of peace and happiness, I am finishing my work of filial love and duty to my party and the State of my adoption, who can wonder that I find on my chain of remembrance countless names marked, “forget me not”? Among the many to whom I became The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton http://www.loc.gov/resource/calbk.187 greatly indebted in my young womanhood for valuable data and gracious encouragement in my researches are General William Tecumseh Sherman, General John A. Sutter, Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont, Honorable Allen Francis, and C. F. McGlashan, author of the “History of the Donner Party.” My fondest affection must ever cling to the dear, quaint old pioneer men and women, whose hand-clasps were warmth and cheer, and whose givings were like milk and honey to my desolate childhood. For each and all of them I have full measure of gratitude, often pressed down, and now overflowing to their sons and daughters, for, with keenest appreciation I learned that, on June 10, 1910, the order of Native Sons of the Golden West laid the corner stone of “Donner Monument,” on the old emigrant trail near the beautiful lake which bears the party's name. There the Native Sons of the Golden West, aided by the Native Daughters of the Golden West, propose to erect a memorial to all overland California pioneers. In a letter to me from Dr. C. W. Chapman, x chairman of that monument committee, is the following forceful paragraph: “The Donner Party has been selected by us as the most typical and as the most varied and comprehensive in its experiences of all the trains that made these wonderful journeys of thousands of miles, so unique in their daring, so brave, so worthy of the admiration of man.” ELIZA P. DONNER HOUGHTON. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, September, 1911. xi CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE THE PACIFIC COAST IN 1845—SPEECHES OF SENATOR BENTON AND REPORT OF CAPT. FRéMONT—MY FATHER AND HIS FAMILY—INTEREST The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton http://www.loc.gov/resource/calbk.187 AWAKENED IN THE NEW TERRITORY—FORMATION OF THE FIRST EMIGRANT PARTY FROM ILLINOIS TO CALIFORNIA—PREPARATIONS FOR THE JOURNEY—THE START—ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CIVILIZATION 1 CHAPTER II IN THE TERRITORY OF KANSAS—PRAIRIE SCHOONERS FROM SANTA Fé TO INDEPENDENCE, MO.—LIFE en route —THE BIG BLUE—CAMP GOVERNMENT— THE Blue Rover 11 CHAPTER III IN THE HAUNTS OF THE PAWNEES—LETTERS OF MRS. GEORGE DONNER—HALT AT FORT BERNARD—SIOUX INDIANS AT FORT LARAMIE 21 CHAPTER IV FOURTH OF JULY IN AN EMIGRANT PARTY—OPEN LETTER OF LANSFORD HASTINGS—GEORGE DONNER ELECTED CAPTAIN OF PARTY BOUND FOR CALIFORNIA—ENTERING THE GREAT DESERT—INSUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF FOOD—VOLUNTEERS COMMISSIONED BY MY FATHER TO HASTEN TO SUTTER's FORT FOR RELIEF 30 xii CHAPTER V BEWILDERING GUIDE BOARD—SOUL-TRYING STRUGGLES—FIRST SNOW—REED-SNYDER TRAGEDY—HARDCOOP's FATE 39 CHAPTER VI INDIAN DEPREDATIONS—WOLFINGER's DISAPPEARANCE—STANTON RETURNS WITH SUPPLIES FURNISHED BY CAPT. SUTTER—DONNER WAGONS SEPARATED FROM TRAIN FOREVER—TERRIBLE PIECE OF NEWS—FORCED INTO SHELTER AT DONNER LAKE—DONNER CAMP ON PROSSER CREEK 54 CHAPTER VII SNOWBOUND—SCARCITY OF FOOD AT BOTH CAMPS—WATCHING FOR RETURN OF MCCUTCHEN AND REED 64 CHAPTER VIII ANOTHER STORM—FOUR DEATHS IN DONNER CAMP—FIELD MICE USED FOR FOOD—CHANGED APPEARANCE OF THE STARVING—SUNSHINE— The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton http://www.loc.gov/resource/calbk.187 DEPARTURE OF THE “FORLORN HOPE”—WATCHING FOR RELIEF—IMPOSSIBLE TO DISTURB THE BODIES OF THE DEAD IN DONNER CAMP—ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF FIRST RELIEF PARTY 68 CHAPTER IX SUFFERINGS OF THE “FORLORN HOPE”—RESORT TO HUMAN FLESH —“CAMP OF DEATH”—BOOTS CRISPED AND EATEN—DEER KILLED—INDIAN Rancheria —THE “WHITE MAN's HOME” AT LAST 77 CHAPTER X RELIEF MEASURES INAUGURATED IN CALIFORNIA—DISTURBED CONDITIONS BECAUSE OF MEXICAN WAR—GENEROUS SUBSCRIPTIONS—THREE PARTIES xiii ORGANIZE—“FIRST RELIEF,” UNDER RACINE TUCKER; “SECOND RELIEF,” UNDER REED AND GREENWOOD; AND RELAY CAMP UNDER WOODWORTH —FIRST RELIEF PARTY CROSSES SNOW-BELT AND REACHES DONNER LAKE 91 CHAPTER XI WATCHING FOR THE SECOND RELIEF PARTY—“OLD NAVAJO”—LAST FOOD IN CAMP 100 CHAPTER XII ARRIVAL OF SECOND RELIEF, OR REED-GREENWOOD PARTY—FEW SURVIVORS STRONG ENOUGH TO TRAVEL—WIFE's CHOICE—PARTINGS AT DONNER CAMP—MY TWO SISTERS AND I DESERTED—DEPARTURE OF SECOND RELIEF PARTY 104 CHAPTER XIII A FATEFUL CABIN—MRS. MURPHY GIVES MOTHERLY COMFORT— THE GREAT STORM—HALF A BISCUIT—ARRIVAL OF THIRD RELIEF—“WHERE IS MY BOY?” 109 CHAPTER XIV THE QUEST OF TWO FATHERS—SECOND RELIEF IN DISTRESS—THIRD RELIEF ORGANIZED AT WOODWORTH's RELAY CAMP—DIVIDES AND ONE HALF GOES TO SUCCOR SECOND RELIEF AND ITS REFUGEES; AND THE OTHER HALF PROCEEDS TO DONNER LAKE—A LAST FAREWELL—A WOMAN's SACRIFICE 115 The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton http://www.loc.gov/resource/calbk.187 CHAPTER XV SIMON MURPHY, FRANCES, GEORGIA, AND I TAKEN FROM THE LAKE CABINS BY THE THIRD RELIEF—NO FOOD TO LEAVE—CROSSING THE SNOW— REMNANT OF THE SECOND RELIEF OVERTAKEN—OUT OF THE SNOW—INCIDENTS OF THE JOURNEY—JOHNSON's RANCH—THE SINCLAIR HOME—SUTTER's FORT 123 xiv CHAPTER XVI ELITHA AND LEANNA—LIFE AT THE FORT—WATCHING THE COW PATH—RETURN OF THE FALLON PARTY—KESEBERG BROUGHT IN BY THEM— FATHER AND MOTHER DID NOT COME 132 CHAPTER XVII ORPHANS—KESEBERG AND HIS ACCUSERS—SENSATIONAL ACCOUNTS OF THE TRAGEDY AT DONNER LAKE—PROPERTY SOLD AND GUARDIAN APPOINTED—KINDLY INDIANS—“GRANDPA”—MARRIAGE OF ELITHA 138 CHAPTER XVIII “GRANDMA”—HAPPY VISITS—A NEW HOME—AM PERSUADED TO LEAVE IT 147 CHAPTER XIX ON A CATTLE RANCH NEAR THE COSUMNE RIVER—“NAME BILLY”— INDIAN GRUB FEAST 156 CHAPTER XX I RETURN TO GRANDMA—WAR RUMORS AT THE FORT—LINGERING HOPE THAT MY MOTHER MIGHT BE LIVING—AN INDIAN CONVOY—THE BRUNNERS AND THEIR HOME 165 CHAPTER XXI MORAL DISCIPLINE—THE HISTORICAL PUEBLO OF SONOMA—SUGAR PLUMS 181 CHAPTER XXII GOLD DISCOVERED—“CALIFORNIA IS OURS”—NURSING THE SICK— THE U.S.
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