Donner - Reed Tragedy by Ted Davidson

Ted Davidson has set the incredible tragedy of the Donner Party in a dramatic structure that maintains the tautness these true events demand. By focusing on Jim Reed (the true leader), Maggie (Jim's wife) and Bill Eddy (the best hunter in the party), Davidson breathes life into all the historically accurate, astonishing events faced by the party--extraordinary confrontations with life and death; courage and cowardice; starvation, madness and murder; love and hate; cannibalism and survival.