Searching for Tamsen Donner Donner Party with an overview on how

with an overview on how to stargaze and what types of objects to look for

demonstrating how

mail and freight haulers

one whose impossible balancing of self

and children from the colonial beginnings of the westward expansion to the last of the homesteaders in late 20th century Alaska

Searching for Tamsen Donner Donner Party with an overview on howTamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 184647. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsens story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a womans life writ large, one whose impossible balancing of self,