HISTORY OF THE DONNER PARTY. A TRAGEDY OF THE SIERRA
1939 · Truckee, C
by McGlashan, Charles F
Truckee, C, 1939. 234pp. Frontis. plus plates. Original pictorial cloth. Very good. With presentation inscription from Harriet Simpson Wohlbruck, founder of Pioneer Donner Park. A later 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 #: WRCAM19315)