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Across the Plains in the Donner Party: 1846 to 1847, by Virginia Murphy, Frederick Remington (Illustrator), Thomas Moraw (Illustrator). Colorado Springs, CO: Villa Publishing Syndicate. 1891, 1995 Reprint.

"Across the Plains in the Donner Party: 1846 to 1847", by Virginia Murphy. Century Magazine. July 1891.

America's Historic Trails - Boxed Set. Questar. 2002.

America's Historic Trails - Boxed Set. Questar. 2002.

America's Historic Trails: The California Trail. Questar. 2002.

At Great Cost, by Mabel Chapman.

"Crossing the Plains in '46", by William C. Graves. The Russian River Flag (Healdsburg, CA).

"Deeply Interesting Letter", by Virginia Murphy. Illinois Journal. December 16, 1847.

Diary of Patrick Breen, One of the Donner Party, by Patrick Breen, Frederick J. Teggart (Editor). Berkeley, CA: University of California. 1910.

Diary of Patrick Breen, One of the Donner Party, by Patrick Breen, Frederick J. Teggart (Editor). Olympic Valley, CA: Outbooks. 1978.

Diary of Patrick Breen, One of the Donner Party, by Patrick Breen. Berkeley, CA: University of California. 1910.

Diesels over Donner: Mountain Soul of the Southern Pacific, by Richard Steinheimer, Dick Dorn. Glendale, CA: Interurban Press. 1989.

Donner Memorial State Park Teachers Handbook, by Sutherland and Fife. Truckee, CA: Donner Memorial State Park. 1986.

Donner Miscellany: 41 Diaries and Documents, by Carroll Hall. San Francisco: The Book Club of San Francisco. 1947.

Donner Pass and Those Who Crossed It; The Story of the Country Made Notable by the Stevens Party, Gold hunters, and the Railroad Builders, by George Rippey Stewart. Menlo Park, CA: Lane. 1960, 1964 Reprint.

Donner Pass Trip-Tape, by Joy Wake.

Donner Pass: Southern Pacific's Sierra Crossing, by John R. Signor. San Marino, CA: Golden West Books. 1985.

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival, by Robert Fuller. Starmaker Entrertainment. 1978.

Excavation of the Donner-Reed Wagons, by Bruce R. Hawkins, David B. Madsen. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. 1990.

Exploring the Great Basin, by Gloria Griffen Cline. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. 1963.

Exploring the Great Basin, by Gloria Griffen Cline. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press.

Fearful Crossing, by Harold Curran. Las Vegas, NV: Nevada Publications. 1987.

Fire and Ice: A Portrait of Truckee, by Truckee Donner Historical Society. Truckee, CA: Truckee Donner Historical Society . 1981.

"From a California Emigrant", by James Frazier Reed. Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL). November 5, 1846.

From the desk of Truckee's C.F. McGlashan: His letters to Eliza Donner Houghton, Donner Party survivor, investigative report of a massacred wagon train, Truckee-Tahoe adventures and more., by Charles F. McGlashan. Truckee, CA: Truckee-Donner Historical Society. 1986.

Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman, William F. Cody, Maurice Filler (Editor). Williamstown, MA: Corner House. 1978.

Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman, William F. Cody. Honolulu, HI: University Press of the Pacific. 2002.

Great Salt Lake: Past and Present, 5th ed., by David E. Miller, Anne Miller Eckman, Lawrence L. Eckman. Tucson, AZ: Treasure Chest Books. 1994.

Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860, with Contemporary Journals, Accounts, Reports and Rosters of the Ten Handcart Companies, by LeRoy R. Hafen, Ann W. Hafen. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books. 1960, 1992 Reprint.

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra, by Charles F. McGlashan, George Hinkle (Editor), Bliss Hinkle (Editor). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 1879, 1940 Reprint.

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra, by Charles F. McGlashan. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing. 1879, 2007 Reprint.

History of the Sierra Nevada, by Francis P. Farquhar. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1989.

History of the Sierra Nevada, by Francis P. Farquhar. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1966.

Humboldt, Highroad of the West, by Dale Lowell Morgan. Salem, NH: Ayer Company Publications. 1943.

Humboldt, Highroad of the West, by Dale Lowell Morgan. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1943, 1985 Reprint.

Journals of Forty-Niners, Salt Lake to Los Angeles: With Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others, by LeRoy R. Hafen, Ann W. Hafen. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books. 1954, 1998 Reprint.

Lake Tahoe: The Way It Was Then and Now , by Phyllis Zauner. Tahoe Paradise, CA: Zanel Publications. 1982.

Left Hand Turn: A Story of the Donner Party Women, by Jeanette Gould Maino. Modesto, CA: Dry Creek Books. 1987.

Map of the Emigrant Road from Independence, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, by T. H. Jefferson. San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society.

"Narrative of the Sufferings of a Company of Emigrants in the Mountains of California in the Winter of 46 and 47", by James Frazier Reed. Springfield, Illinois Journal. December 9, 1847 and December 23, 1847.

Northern California Handbook, by Kim Weir. Emeryville, CA: Avalon. 2004.

Old Greenwood: The Story of Caleb Greenwood, Trapper, Pathfinder and Early Pioneer of the West, by Charles Kelly. Reno, NV: Jack Bacon & Company. 1936, 2005 Reprint.

Old Sacramento State Historic Park, by McKowen & Burke. n.p..

On the Trail of Tragedy: The Excavation of the Donner Party Site. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture. 1990.

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party, by George Rippey Stewart. Boston, MA: Mariner Books. 1936, 1992 Reprint.

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party, by George Rippey Stewart. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 1936, 1960 Reprint.

Oregon and California in 1848, by Jessy Quinn Thornton. Salem, NH: Ayer Publishing. 1849, 1973 Reprint.

Over the Salt Lake Trail in the Fall of '49, by William B. Lorton. 1957.

Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 1, by Dale Lowell Morgan. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1994.

Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 1, by Dale Lowell Morgan. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1993.

Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 2, by Dale Lowell Morgan. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1993.

Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 2, by Dale Lowell Morgan. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1993.

Pacific Wagon Roads. Letters from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting a Report upon the Several Wagon Roads Constructed under the Direction of the Interior Department [Report by Albert H. Campbell, Dated 19 February 1859]., by Albert H. Campbell. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party, by Rachel K. Laurgaard, Elizabeth Sykes Michaels. Davis, CA: Tomato Enterprises. 1954, 1989 Reprint.

Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party, by Rachel K. Laurgaard, Elizabeth Sykes Michaels. Friday Harbor, WA: Turtleback Books. 1954, 1989 Reprint.

Pioneer (Donner) Monument, by Doris Foley. Nevada City, NV: Searles Historical Library. 1982.

Pioneer Memoirs, by John Breen. Manuscript in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography of Travel over the Great Central Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and other Western States and Territories, 18112-1866, by Merrill J. Mattes. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 1988.

Rand McNally's Pioneer Atlas of the American West, by Dale Lowell Morgan. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally. 1956.

Relief of the Donner Party, by Daniel Rhoads.

Reno-Sparks Nevada, by Phyllis Zauner. Tahoe Paradise, CA: Zanel Publications. 1984.

Report of a Journey from California by the South Pass to Fort Leavenworth in 1847, by Thomas Swords. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 1848.

Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California, by Charles Kelly, Peter DeLafosse. Salt Lake City, UT: Western Printing Company. 1930, 1996 Reprint.

Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California, by Charles Kelly, Peter DeLafosse. Salt Lake City, UT: Western Printing Company. 1930, 1969 Reprint.

Sierra Nevada Lakes, by George Hinkle, Bliss Hinkle. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. 1987.

Sierra Nevada Lakes, by George Hinkle, Bliss Hinkle. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1949.

Snow Covered Wagons: A pioneer epic: The Donner party expedition, 1846-1847 , by Julia Cooley Altroochi. New York, NY: MacMillan. 1936.

Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party, by David Sievert Lavander. New York, NY: Holiday House. 1996.

Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party, by David Sievert Lavander. New York, NY: Scholastic. 1948.

"Statement of William McCutchen", by William McCutchen. Pacific Rural Press. April 1, 1871.

Storm, by George Rippey Stewart. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1941, 1983 Reprint.

Storm, by George Rippey Stewart. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books. 1941, 2003 Reprint.

Survival: A Novel of the Donner Party, by K. C. McKenna. New York, NY: Jove Publications. 1994.

Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey, by Ruth Whitman. Cambridge, MA: Alice James Books. 1977.

The Archaeology of the Donner Party, by Donald L. Hardesty, Michael J. Brodhead. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. 2005.

The Archaeology of the Donner PartyHistoric Site, by Donald L. Hardesty, Michael J. Brodhead. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. 1997.

The Bidwell-Bartleson Party, 1841, by Doyce Nunis. Santa Cruz, CA: Western Tanager Press. 1991.

The Boston-Newton Company Venture: From Massachusetts to California in 1849, by Jessie G. Hannon. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1969.

The California Trail: An Epic with Many Epic Heroes, by George Rippey Stewart. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books. 1962, 1983 Reprint.

The California Trail: An Epic with Many Epic Heroes, by George Rippey Stewart. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill. 1962.

"The Cut-Off", by Arthur W. North. Sunset. December 1915.

The Donner Party, by George Keithley. New York, NY: George Braziller. 1989.

The Donner Party, by George Keithley. New York, NY: George Braziller. 1972.

The Donner Party, by Ric Burns, Ades, Lisa. PBS Paramount. 1992.

"The Donner Party and Relief Hill", by W. W. Waggoner. California Historical Society Quarterly. December 1931.

The Donner Party Chronicles, by Frank Mullen, Jr., Marilyn Newton. Reno, NV: Nevada Humanities Committee. 1997.

The Donner Party Rescue Site: Johnson's Ranch on Bear River, by Jack Steed, Richard Steed. Carrollton, MS: Pioneer Publishing Co.. 1988.

"The Donner Tragedy", by Frances H. McDougal. Pacific Rural Press. January 21, 1871 and April 29, 1871.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1911, 1997 Reprint.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton. Buffalo, NY: IndyPublish.com. 1911, 2005 Reprint.

The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie, by Merrill J. Mattes. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1987.

The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie, by Merrill J. Mattes. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1987.

The Great Salt Lake, by Dale Lowell Morgan, Harold Schindler. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. 1986, 2005 Reprint.

The Great Salt Lake, by Dale Lowell Morgan, Harold Schindler. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. 1986.

The Overland Trail, by Jay Monaghan, James Monaghan. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1947.

The Pioneers Go West, by George Rippey Stewart. New York, NY: Random House. 1954, 1982 Reprint.

The Pioneers Go West, by George Rippey Stewart. Minneapolis, MN: Tandem Library. 1954, 1999 Reprint.

"The Road to 'Fortune:' The Salt Lake Cutoff", by L. A. Fleming, A. R. Standing. Vol. 33. Utah Historical Quarterly.

"The Snow-Bound, Starved Emigrants of 1846", by James Frazier Reed. Pacific Rural Press. March 25, 1871 and April 1, 1871.

The Tahoe Sierra : A Natural History Guide to 112 Hikes in the Northern Sierra, by Jeffrey Schaffer. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press. 1987.

The Trail: A Bibliography of the Traveler on the Overland Trail to California, Oregon, Salt Lake City, and Montana during the Years 1841-1864, by Lannon W. Mintz. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. 1987.

The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party, by Richard Rhoads. New York, NY: David Mckay Company. 1973.

The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party, by Richard Rhoads. Staford General Books. 1973, 2007 Reprint.

To California by Covered Wagon, by George Rippey Stewart, William Moyers (Illustrator). New York, NY: Random House. 1954.

Trailing the Pioneers : A Guide to Utah's Emigrant Trails, 1829-1869/West from Fort Bridger : The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846, by Peter H. DeLafosse. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 1994.

Trailing the Pioneers : A Guide to Utah's Emigrant Trails, 1829-1869/West from Fort Bridger : The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846, by Peter H. DeLafosse. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 1994.

Truckee, by Joanne Meschery. Truckee, CA: Rocking Stone Press. 1980.

U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America, by George R. Stewart, Erwin Raisz (Maps). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 1953.

Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party, by Kristin Johnson. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 1996.

Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party, by Kristin Johnson. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 1996.

"West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails across Utah, 1846-1850", by J. Roderic Korns. Vol. 19. Utah Historical Quarterly. 1951.

What Shall We Do Tomorrow at Lake Tahoe: A Complete Activities Guide for Lake Tahoe, Truckee, and Carson Pass, by Eleanor (Ellie) Huggins. Truckee, CA: Coldstream Press. 1998.

Winter of Entrapment, by Joseph King. Lafayette, CA: K & K Publications. 1994.

Winter of Entrapment, by Joseph King. Lafayette, CA: K & K Publications. 1993.

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