History of the Donner Party recounts the experience of 89 settlers intent on migrating to California. Stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during winter, they resorted to desperate measures.
Charles F. McGlashan (1847-1931) was Truckee's principal of schools in California. He was elected to the California State Assembly in 1885 as a leading Sinophobe. Later he became a newspaperman and wrote The History of the Donner Party, published in 1879.
