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More Great Links
- PBS Nova Science NOW: Archaeology at the Donner Campsite
- Discover Magazine: Living Through the Donner Party
- PBS American Experience: The Donner Party
Sources
- DonnerPartyDiary.Com: Maps. http://www.donnerpartydiary.com/maps.htm
- Education First: Donner Party. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/index.html
- February 1847 Donner Party Diary Excerpts. http://www.donnerpartydiary.com/feb47.htm
- McGlashan, C., Hinkle, B., and Hinkle, G., Eds. "History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra." Stanford University Press, 1940.
- San Francisco Museum: First News Account of Donner Party. http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/donner.html
- Science Daily: Cannibalism at the Donner Site Remains Unproven. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060113111909.htm
- The Donner Party by Daniel Lewis: Eating the Dead. http://raiboy.tripod.com/Donner/id28.html
- The Donner Party by Daniel Lewis: The Donner Party and Native Americans. http://raiboy.tripod.com/Donner/id38.html
- The Donner Party by Daniel Lewis: The Religion of the Donner Party. http://raiboy.tripod.com/Donner/id15.html
- The Donner Party by Daniel Lewis: The Story. http://raiboy.tripod.com/Donner/id23.html
- The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11146/11146-h/11146-h.htm#CHAPTER_VIII
- The Gutenberg Project: The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11146/11146-h/11146-h.htm
- UtahCrossroads.Org: Donner Party Chronology. http://www.utahcrossroads.org/DonnerParty/Chronology.htm
- UtahCrossroads.Org: Donner Party Myths & Misconceptions. http://www.utahcrossroads.org/DonnerParty/Myths.htm
- UtahCrossroads.Org: Donner Party Roster. http://www.utahcrossroads.org/DonnerParty/Roster.htm
- UtahCrossRoads.Org: First Relief Diary of George Tucker & M.D. Ritchie. http://www.utahcrossroads.org/DonnerParty/FirstReliefDiary.htm
- Virginia Western University: Donner Party. http://www.vw.vccs.edu/vwhansd/HIS121/Donner.html
