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Searching for Tamsen Donner
Gabrielle Burton
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Description for Searching for Tamsen Donner
paperback. Recovers one woman's compelling history through a modern-day family's adventures into realms of ultimately timeless experiences Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846–47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen’s story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman’s life writ large, one whose impossible balancing of self, motherhood, and marriage spoke to Burton’s own experience.
This book tells of Burton’s search to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner ... Read more
Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846–47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen’s story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman’s life writ large, one whose impossible balancing of self, motherhood, and marriage spoke to Burton’s own experience.
This book tells of Burton’s search to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
American Lives
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803236387
SKU
V9780803236387
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About Gabrielle Burton
Gabrielle Burton (1939–2015) was a writer whose numerous projects include the film Manna from Heaven, which she wrote and produced, and the novel Heartbreak Hotel, which won Scribner’s 1985 Maxwell Perkins Prize, an award for a first work of fiction. She authored a novel she imagined as Tamsen Donner's journal, Impatient with Desire: The Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner. Burton's writing has ... Read more
Reviews for Searching for Tamsen Donner
“An extraordinary `must-read’ memoir. . . . An unforgettable feminist family-on-the-road saga the likes of which I’ve never read before.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air |“As dramatic and tragic as the story of the Donner Party is, it shares space here with the tender reflections of a mother of five daughters—daughters whose filial companionship on a summer road trip long ago ... Read more