Donner made valuable collections of rare flowers and plants. Her journal, and a full description of the contents of her botanical portfolios, were to have been published upon her arrival in California.

Travel-stained and weary, yet triumphant and happy, most of them reach their various destinations, and their trying experiences and valorous deeds are quietly interwoven with the general history of the …

A listing of the specific pages in each of the 21 scrapbooks that have Donner-related clippings is available in The Guide to the Sutter’s Fort Collection of Donner Party Material.

Introduction by the well-wishers and the media. They headed along Donner Lake, up one thousand feet to Donner Pass and then down the west side of the Sierra, across lakes, down into canyons, p steep …

The Donner Party pushed that hurried schedule to the absolute limit and had spent much of the summer trailing in the dusty wheel ruts of the other wagons of 1846.

The Donner Party was a group of American explorers who planned a long migration journey in the mid-1840s—one that didn’t exactly end up going as planned. In spring of 1846, the party of 89 left …

Narrator: The 81 members of the Donner Party -- 25 men, 15 women and 41 children, including six nursing infants -- were now huddled miserably in two makeshift winter camps.