History of the Donner Party

Donner Lake

A Famous Tourist Resort

Building the Central Pacific

California's Skating Park

The Pioneers

The Organization of the Donner Party

Ho! for California!

A Mammoth Train

The Dangers by the Way

False Accounts of the Sufferings Endured

Complete Roll of the Company

Impostors Claiming to Belong to the Party

Killed by the Pawnees

An Alarmed Camp

Resin Indians

A Mother's Death

Mrs. Donner's Letters

Life on the Plains

An Interesting Sketch

The Outfit Required

The Platte River

Botanizing

Five Hundred and Eighteen Wagons for California

Burning "Buffalo Chips"

The Fourth of July at Fort Laramie

Indian Discipline

Sioux Attempt to Purchase Mary Graves

George Donner Elected Captain

Letter of Stanton

Dissension

One Company Split up into Five

The Fatal Hastings Cut-off

Lowering Wagons over a Precipice

The First View of Great Salt Lake

A Grave of Salt

Members of the Mystic Tie

Twenty Wells

A Desolate Alkaline Waste

Abandoned on the Desert

A Night of Horror

A Steer Maddened by Thirst

The Mirage

Yoking an Ox and a Cow

"Cacheing" Goods

The Emigrants' Silent Logic

A Cry for Relief

Two Heroic Volunteers

A Perilous journey

Letters to Captain Sutter