History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra, C. F. McGlashan
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History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra

Author: C. F. McGlashan

Narrator: Bobbie Frohman

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Published: 02/20/2014

Genre: History - United States

Synopsis

C. F. McGlashan was the newspaper editor and publisher of the local daily in Truckee, California, the closest town to the Donner Pass. Over the course of an eighteen-month period, McGlashan interviewed the survivors of the Donner Party, gathered artifacts, and amassed an enormous amount of secondary information. He published his findings as serialized articles in his paper, which were later published in book form. Detailed and engaging, History of the Donner Party is considered the definitive account of one of the most notorious treks in American history.

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