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We are still obsessed with the Donner Party
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Gabrielle
Burton has been thinking about Tamsen Donner, the wife
of leader of the doomed pioneer party, for more than 25 years.She and her family – her husband and three daughters – retraced Tamsen’s journey across the United States in a never-to-be-forgotten road trip. Burton recounted that 1970s journey in a memoir, Searching for Tamsen Donner, published in 2009 by University of Nebraska Press.
But writing a memoir didn’t get Tamsen Donner out of Burton’s system. She still heard Tamsen’s insistent voice inside her head. Why, Burton wondered, had Tamsen sent her small children to s...
Posted by Ms. Frances L. Dinkelspiel on May 5 2010 6:56PM | 1 comments
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Zonie Toponymy, or How the West was Fun
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A book on place names? Really? Oh yes! As the token nonfiction reader on this blog I thought I'd start by showing everyone how much history, drama and romance you can find in the pages of a reference book.Close your eyes and picture the Old West. What do you see?
- Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas fighting it out with a young Dennis Hopper in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (or Kurt Russell's 90's version, or H...
Posted by Mr. Erik Wieland on Nov 29 2009 2:28PM | 3 comments
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