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Across the Plains in the Donner Party: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trip to California.
By VirginiaReed Murphy, -
As printed in The Century Magazine, Volume 42, , pp.
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I. TABER. | "A PIONEER PALACE CAR." | ADAPTED FROM A SKETCH BY A. P. HILL. |
ACROSS THE PLAINS IN THE DONNER PARTY ().
A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE OVERLAND TRIP TO CALIFORNIA.
WAS a child when we started to California, yet I remember the journey well and I have cause to remember it, as our little band of emigrants who drove out of Springfield, Illinois, that spring morning of have since been known in history as the "Ill-fated Donner party" of "Martyr Pioneers." My father, James F.
Reed, was the originator of the party, and the Donner brothers, George and Jacob, who lived just a little way out of Springfield, decided to join him.
All the previous winter we were preparing for the journey and right here let