Across the Plains in the Donner Party
first edition Hardcover
Palo Alto, California
by Murphy, Virginia Reed
Palo Alto, California: Lewis Osborne Book. Fine. Hardcover. First book edition. c.1966. Limited to 1,400 copies. First published in The Century Magazine, 1891. Foreword by George R. Stewart. 56pp. Frontis portrait, illustrations. Bibliography. Blue cloth, gilt. A fine copy in plain gray dust jacket. Virginia Murphy wrote these plaintive recollections some forty-five years following the Donner tragedy. Her father was James Reed, an important figure in the event. This copy includes the laid-in folding map showing the overland route of the Donner Party, as well (truncated)