Writer: Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

Produced by Dave Morgan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE EXPEDITION OF THE DONNER PARTY AND ITS TRAGIC FATE BY ELIZA P. DONNER HOUGHTON PREFACE Out of the sunshine and shadows of sixty-eight years come these personal recollections of California–of the period when American civilization first crossed its mountain heights and entered its overland