Other Donner Party Links

Other Donner Party Websites

Visit these other Donner Party related Web sites:

• Kristin Johnson's website New Light on the Donner Party.  Ms. Johnson is the author of the anthology of Donner Party narratives, Unfortunate Emigrants.  Her website includes a roster of the Donner Party, Myths and Misperceptions, new documents, and the Donner Party Bulletin - an update on current research.  These web pages are part of the website of the Crossroads (Utah) chapter of the Oregon California Trail Association, for which Ms. Johnson serves as editor.
• Ric Burns created a documentary for The American Experience on PBS, based on reseearch by Prof. Joseph King. The PBS website includes an interview with Ric Burns, a bibliography and a teacher's guide.  You can purchase the videotape from the website.
• Take a virtual tour of the Hastings Cut-off, courtesy the Utah Crossroads Chapter of the Oregon California Trail Association, with photographs by Ray Tea.
• Read about Lansford Hastings and his Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California.
• The Mormon Pioneer Story by Max Bertolo, has a reference to the Donner-Reed Trail through the Wasatch.
• The California State Parks page about Donner Memorial State Park.
• Erick Studenicka's article about the Emigrant Trail Museum at Donner Memorial State Park, on Tahoe.com.
• The Dogtown Territorial Quarterly contains a variety of articles about California history, including the Special Collector's Issue No. 26 on the Donner Party.  
• The Denton Family Genealogy has information about John Denton by Doris McDuffie Denton.
• Read two letters from Daniel Rhoads, member of the First Relief, on Mike and Katie's homepage.
• Author and photographer Mark McLaughlin has researched the weather conditions that confronted the Donner Party, and also written about Tamsen Donner and the archaeological findings from the excavations at the Alder Creek site.
• Barbara Barte's article on the Lake Tahoe News Network on Tahoe.com includes a listing of books and videos on sale at the Donner Memorial State Park museum.
• The Truckee-Donner Historical Society, which preserves the history of the Truckee area.
• Read Horn's Overland Guide, published in 1852, at the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum.  The Overland Route traveled much of the same route as the Trail of '46.  
• A bibliography of the California Trail and the Donner Party compiled by Frank Brusca on his excellent, award-winning site "Route 40-National Road."
• Diana Harrison has written about a possible encounter between Reed and Eddy and the Paiutes, in The Donner Party vs. The Paiutes in The OCB Tracker, California's Native News.
• Nevada County Gold Online preserves the history of Nevada County.
• STUDENTS:  Click here for the Donner Online web scrapbook (from Pacific Bell).  You research the Donner Party on the web, and create a hypertext scrapbook.
• The Seattle Post-Intelligencer story about Bill Pugsley, 52, of Reno, Nevada, who followed the route of the Donner Party on foot from the Little Sandy, Wyoming, to Donner Memorial State Park in Truckee, California during the 150th anniversary.
• The Hastings Tribune story about a Donner Party descendant reunion in Alma, Nebraska.
• The Sacrament Bee story about the family reunions held at Donner Memorial State Park, which included talks by Kristin Johnson.

Visit these other sites for general history information.

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