Chapter 1 No.1

Donner Lake

A Famous Tourist Resort

Building the Central Pacific

California's Skating Park

The Pioneers

The Organization of the Donner Party

Ho! for California!

A Mammoth Train

The Dangers by the Way

False Accounts of the Sufferings Endured

Complete Roll of the Company

Impostors Claiming to Belong to the Party

Killed by the Pawnees

An Alarmed Camp

Resin Indians

A Mother's Death