History of the Donner Party

A Tragedy of the Sierra



By C. F. McGlashan

Truckee, Cal.





To Mrs. Elizabeth A. Keiser,
One of the Pioneer Mothers of California,


This Book is Respectfully Dedicated by the Author.



Preface.



The delirium preceding death by starvation, is full of strange
phantasies. Visions of plenty, of comfort, of elegance, flit ever before
the fast-dimming eyes. The final twilight of death is a brief
semi-consciousness in which the dying one frequently repeats his weird