{"product_id":"searching-for-tamsen-donner-paperback","title":"Searching for Tamsen Donner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabrielle Burton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTamsen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book tells of Burton's search to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner for herself. A graceful mingling of history and memoir, \u003cem\u003eSearching for Tamsen Donner\u003c\/em\u003e follows Burton and her husband, with their five daughters, on her journey along Tamsen's path. From Tamsen's birthplace in Massachusetts to North Carolina, where she lost her first family in the space of three months; to Illinois, where she married George Donner; and finally to the fateful Oregon Trail, Burton recovers one woman's compelling history through a modern-day family's adventures into realms of ultimately timeless experiences. Here Burton has also, for the first time, collected and published together all seventeen of Tamsen's known letters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGabrielle Burton (1939-2015) was a writer whose numerous projects include the film \u003cem\u003eManna from Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, which she wrote and produced, and the novel \u003cem\u003eHeartbreak Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eImpatient with Desire: The Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner\u003c\/em\u003e. Burton's writing has also appeared in publications such as the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabrielle Burton (1939-2015) was a writer whose numerous projects include the film \u003ci\u003eManna from Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, which she wrote and produced, and the novel \u003ci\u003eHeartbreak Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eImpatient with Desire: The Lost Journal of Tamsen Donner\u003c\/i\u003e. Burton's writing has also appeared in publications such as the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.03 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757592150304,"sku":"9780803236387","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9502e43552029b2b5c7af50287663705.webp?v=1780106071","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/searching-for-tamsen-donner-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}