Searching for Tamsen Donner
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Pines and Plains - Elbert Schools - NONFICTION | 978.02 BUR | On Shelf |
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Burton, Gabrielle -- Family.
Burton, Gabrielle -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
Donner Party.
Donner, Tamsen, -- 1801-1847 -- Correspondence.
Donner, Tamsen, -- 1801-1847.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence.
Burton, Gabrielle -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
Donner Party.
Donner, Tamsen, -- 1801-1847 -- Correspondence.
Donner, Tamsen, -- 1801-1847.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence.
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xii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-314).
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"Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846-47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen's story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman's life writ large, one whose impossible balancing of self, motherhood, and marriage spoke to Burton's own experience." "This book tells of Burton's search to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner for herself. A graceful mingling of history and memoir, Searching for Tamsen Donner follows Burton and her husband, with their five daughters, on her journey along Tamsen's path. From Tamsen's birthplace in Massachusetts to North Carolina, where she lost her first family in the space of three months; to Illinois, where she married George Donner; and finally to the fateful Oregon Trail, Burton recovers one woman's compelling history through a modern-day family's adventure into realms of ultimately timeless experiences."--BOOK JACKET
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All Ages.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Burton, G. (2009). Searching for Tamsen Donner . University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burton, Gabrielle. 2009. Searching for Tamsen Donner. University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Burton, Gabrielle. Searching for Tamsen Donner University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Burton, Gabrielle. Searching for Tamsen Donner University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
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