The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 43 original MP3 tracks, 10:11:12 running time and a link to listen.
The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate, credited to Eliza P. Donner Houghton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
Librivox recording of The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton Read by LibriVox Volunteers. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although this aspect of the tragedy has become synonymous with the Donner Party in the popular imagination, it actually was a minor part of the episode. The author was about 4 at the time. The first part of the book accounts the tragic journey and rescue attempts; the last half are reminiscences of the child orphan, passed from family to family while growing up. (Summary from Wikipedia & Tricia G) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate
- Author credits: Eliza P. Donner Houghton
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 43
- Listed recording duration: 10:11:12
Catalogue topics
- Donner Party
- Sierra Nevada
- California settlers
- 1840's
- memoir
- history
Opening tracks: first 24 of 43
- 00 - Preface — 6:37
- 01 - Chapter I — 16:06
- 02 - Chapter II — 16:58
- 03 - Chapter III — 16:12
- 04 - Chapter IV — 15:02
- 05 - Chapter V — 24:21
- 06 - Chapter VI — 17:49
- 07 - Chapter VII — 5:50
- 08 - Chapter VIII — 14:55
- 09 - Chapter IX — 25:47
- 10 - Chapter X — 14:22
- 11 - Chapter XI — 6:07
- 12 - Chapter XII — 7:56
- 13 - Chapter XIII — 8:14
- 14 - Chapter XIV — 12:24
- 15 - Chapter XV — 14:57
- 16 - Chapter XVI — 9:06
- 17 - Chapter XVII — 14:21
- 18 - Chapter XVIII — 13:43
- 19 - Chapter XIX — 14:45
- 20 - Chapter XX — 25:02
- 21 - Chapter XXI — 17:57
- 22 - Chapter XXII — 12:14
- 23 - Chapter XXIII — 21:22
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