The story of the Donner Party is actually pretty epic. Any good books?

It's got everything you'd want. Interpersonal drama, intrigue, disaster horror, inter-family politics, all against a backdrop that could be stunning.

What's the best book about the Donner party? : r/suggestmeabook

Since you've already been given the perfect correct answer, I'm going to recommend a not-quite-nonfiction version: Alma Katu's The Hunger.

History of the Donner Party by Charles Fayette McGlashan

This book has convinced me that I am a soft, spongy, skilless young woman who if - as I sometimes daydreamed about as a young Little House on the Prairie reader ...

Across the Plains in the Donner Party by Virginia Reed Murphy

This was my first audiobook so my review may be somewhat biased as I have never experienced a book this way. Virginia Reed Murphy's account of the Donner Party ...

What is the best book you've read about the Donner Party?

I've read two Donner Party books - the one you mentioned, and The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride. Definitely worth reading.

Book Review: “The History of the Donner Party” C.F. McGlashan ...

High adventure. That's how I would tag this engaging, entirely readable epic written by a newspaperman about one of early America's most tragic ...

What are the best books to read about the Donner Party? What do ...

While books like 'The Indifferent Stars Above' by Daniel James Brown provide harrowing accounts of the Donner Party's ordeal, ...

'The Hunger' Is a Supernatural Spin on the Donner Party

With that alone, you have the makings of a great tale. Add to it the stories of the men and women in the wagon party: why did they decide to ...

Review: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party

It is a very grim true story. Death is ever-present in the book—expressed visually as the Grim Reaper in the final chapters—and there's no sugar ...

A sinister, supernatural imagined account of the Donner Party's ...

By Leslie Lindsay We might all be familiar with the fated Donner Party, a group of pioneers struggling across the Great Plains as they ...

[The Best Land Under Heaven] | C-SPAN.org

Michael Wallis talked about his book, [The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny], his history of ...

Old Bones - Member Reviews | NetGalley

As always with the Preston & Child's books, there is a lot of history to be gleaned and history to be researched more fully. The Donner Party ...

Deceived the Story of hte Donner Party

There are so many books about the Donner Party (see our book review web pages for examples) that one can hardly imagine how another book could add to the ...

Donner Party - Wikipedia

Rescuers from California attempted to reach the migrants, but the first relief party did not arrive until the middle of February 1847, almost four months after ...

The Donner Party (2009) - User reviews - IMDb

It's one of the truly tragic stories of American history that should probably be better known than it is. I stumbled upon this movie quite by chance and decided ...

The Donner Party - Epic

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A New History of the Donner Party and the Dark Side of Manifest ...

Michael Wallis's “The Best Land Under Heaven” tells the story of the mythic Donner Party.

Interview: Producer Ric Burns | American Experience | PBS

And so much of what the Donner party is about is a very tragic sense of how very potent dreams led people astray. Who to Blame? Any time something goes wrong, ...

Book Review: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

(pg 249)” It really is a beautiful sport in so many ways. I'm glad ... Donner Party in 1846. His earlier book--Under a Flaming Sky: The ...

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner... - ThriftBooks

Buy a cheap copy of Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the... book by George R. Stewart. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing ...