HISTORY OF THE DONNER PARTY. A TRAGEDY OF THE SIERRA
1907 · Sacramento
by McGlashan, Charles F.
Sacramento, 1907. 261pp. plus plates. Frontis. Cloth. Slight fraying at edges, inner front hinge starting but sound, else very good, with relevant news clipping laid in. The ninth edition. "Best account of the most harrowing of all overland disasters" - Howes. "Long regarded as the definitive treatise on the subject. The book has gone through many editions, virtually unchanged, and remains today an essential item for the student of the California story" - Hanna entry in Libros Californianos. HOWES M102. LIBROS CALIFORNIANOS, p.68. ZAMORANO 80, 53 (ref). MINTZ 318 (ref). REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 193 (ref). (Inventory #: WRCAM1348)