Chapter 2 No.2

Mrs. Donner's Letters

Life on the Plains

An Interesting Sketch

The Outfit Required

The Platte River

Botanizing

Five Hundred and Eighteen Wagons for California

Burning "Buffalo Chips"

The Fourth of July at Fort Laramie

Indian Discipline

Sioux Attempt to Purchase Mary Graves

George Donner Elected Captain

Letter of Stanton

Dissension

One Company Split up into Five

The Fatal Hastings Cut-off

Lowering Wagons over a Precipice

The First View of Great Salt Lake