| Ario, Tom, Gambolin; Man blog Royal Gorge: The First Annual Russell Towle Memorial Backpacking Trip Into His Favorite Wilderness – the North Fork American River Paradise, 2009. |
| Aunger, Robert, Curtis, Valerie, The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary- Ecological Approach, Biological Theory, 2013, vol 8, pg 49-63 |
| Bagley, Will, So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 (Overland West), University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University, 2010. |
| Breen, Patrick, Manuscript Diary. One of three known journals (Tamsen Donner and Lewis Keseberg’s diaries were lost and destroyed respectively) kept by a member of the Donner Party during the winter of 1846-47 at Truckee Lake. Transcribed and published in many later works. Available online in original manuscript at the University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library. |
| Brink, Susan, What Happens to the Body and Mind When Starvation Sets In?, NPR, 2016 |
| Brown, Daniel James, The Indifferent Stars Above, William Morrow (imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), 2009 |
| Bryant, Edwin, What I Saw in California, Kristin Johnson’s New Light On The Donner Party Site, 1985, originally published by D. Appleton & Company, 1848; includes Sinclair’s statement based on Eddy’s journal, and an early transcription of Breen’s Diary. |
| Buck, Donald E., Development of Emigrant Trail Research in the Truckee–Donner Pass Region in the Post-Weddell Era of California |
| Burns, Ric, The Donner Party, documentary for the PBS series The American Experience. The program is available on DVD from The American Experience. |
| Burunat, Enrique, Love Is a Physiological Motivation (Like Hunger, Thirst, Sleep or Sex), Medical Hypotheses, ScienceDirect, Elsevier, 2019. |
| Bush, Diane, Western American Literature, Utah State University, Logan, UT, book review: Searching for Tamsen Donner, Burton, Gabrielle, Lincoln University of Nebraska Press, 2009 |
| California-Nevada Chapter of the Oregon California Trails Association |
| Curran, Harold, Fearful crossing: The central overland trail through Nevada, Great Basin Press, Limited First Edition, 1982; Las Vegas: Nevada Publications,1982; first rev. ed., 1987 |
| DePuy, David, Johnson Ranch materials, Donner Summit Historical Society, 2020 |
| Dixon, Kelly J. and Schablitsky, Julie M. and Novak, Shannon A., An Archaeology of Despration, Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp, University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Available online. |
| Donner Memorial State Park and Museum, Truckee, CA. |
| Donner Summit Historical Society |
| Duncan, Don, The Unluckiest Emigrants, Newspaper Reports of the Donner Party (1846-1847). |
| Eaddy, Vanik S., PhD, William H. Eddy of the Donner Party. |
| Eley, Thomas, Book Review of Schutt, Bill, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, Algonquin Books, 2017. xviii and 352 pp., notes of April 2018 pages 85-87 |
| Enss, Chris, Wild Women: The Sorrowful Teacher, Mary Graves-Clark, Cowgirl Life, November 1, 2017. |
| Farnham, Elizabeth, California, In-doors and out, (1856). Available online – republished in K. Johnson’s Unfortunate Emigrants, 1996, Utah State University USU Press and at the Library of Congress American Memory Collection. |
| Krizek, John, Tyler, Kit, Saunders, Miles, Forgotten Journey, The Stephens Townsend Murphy Saga, The First Wagon Train to California Went Over Donner Summit – 1844, DVD, Forgotten Journey Productions, 2004. |
| Gibbons, Bond, The Itch to Move West, National Geographic, Vol. 170, No. 2, August 1986. |
| Graydon, Charles K., Trail of the First Wagons Over the Sierra Nevada, The Patrice Press, 1986, USGS topographic maps and photographs; diary accounts to verify the trail location. |
| Grayson, Donald K., Differential Mortality and the Donner Party Disaster, Evolutionary Anthropology 1994 p. 151-159 |
| Grebenkemper, John, Johnson, Kristin, Morris, Adela, Locating the Grave of John Snyder, Field Research on a Donner Party Death, Overland Journal, volume 30, number 3, fall 2012. |
| Hall, Carroll, Donner Miscellany, The Book Club of San Francisco, 1947. |
| Hardesty, Donald L., The Archaeology of the Donner Party, University of Neveda Press, 1997.Available online. |
| Hastings, Lansford, The Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California, originally published in 1845, reprinted by Applewood Books, Bedford, MA. Available online at the University of Virginia’s American Studies hypertext collection. |
| Hawkins, Bruce R. and Madsen, David B., Excavation of the Donner-Reed Wagons, University of Utah Press, 1990. |
| Higgins, E. Tory, Beyond Pleasure and Pain, How Motivation Works, Oxford University Press, 2012. Available online. |
| Hill, William, The California Trail Yesterday and Today, Tamarack Books, 1993. |
| History Matters, The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, American Popular Song: A Brief History |
| Houghton, Eliza Donner, The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate, University of Nebraska Press, 1997, is a reprint of the long out of print history by one of the surviving Donner girls. Available online at the Library of Congress American Memory Collection. As the author was only three at the time of the events, her book is actually based on stories told her by her older sisters and half-sisters. Some of her notes of those stories have been published elsewhere, notably in The Dogtown Territorial Quarterly. |
| International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Starvation – several abstracts of scientific studies and research, 2008. |
| Jefferson, T.H., Map of the Emigrant Road – Independence, Missouri to San Francisco, California, 1849 |
| Johnson, Kristin, ed., Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party, Utah State University Press, 1996; includes 1871 articles by Reed and McCutchen, William Graves’ 1877, Virginia Reed’s Century Magazine, Eliza Farnham’s 1856 and Thornton’s chapters related to the Donners. Annotated with reference to Morgan, Stewart and other authorities. Available online. |
| Johnson, Kristin, 2014 Spur Finalist: Donner Party Cannibalism, Did They or Didn’t They?, 2014. |
| Johnson, Kristin, Donner Blog 2006-2014. |
| Johnson, Kristin, New Light on the Donner Party 1997-2006. |
| Kaufman, Richard F. PhD, Saving the Donner Party and Forlorn Hope, Archway Publishing, 2014. |
| Keithley, George, The Donner Party, George Braziller, Inc., 1972. |
| Khomina, Anna, The Donner-Reed Party and the Winter of 1846, U.S. History Scene. |
| King, Joseph A., Winter of Entrapment, 3rd edition, K&K Publication, P.D. Meany published the book in 1992, and the 2d edition in 1994. |
| King, Joseph, William G. Murphy’s Lecture and Two Letters to Mrs. Houghton, and with Jack Steed, Newly-Discovered Documents on the Donner Party: The Donner Girls Tell Their Story, Dogtown Territorial Quarterly, Bill Penny Anderson, publishers, Paradise, California, 1996 Summer Issue # 26, originally published in the Marysville Appeal, Sunday, February 9, 1896. The Dogtown Territorial Quarterly is available online. |
| Kolb, Charles C., The Archaeology of the Donner Party, Journal of American Culture, Bowling Green, vol. 21, Iss 1 (Spring, 1998): pp 90-92 |
| Korns, J. Roderic and Dale Morgan, editors, West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah, 1846-1850, originally published 1943, revised and updated by Will Bagley and Harold Schindler, Utah State University Press, 1994. |
| Kroeber, A.L., 1925 – Handbook of the Indians of California, Digital Commons @CSUMB, Government Documents and Publications, First Nations Era, digital publication, 2019 |
| Laurgaard, Rachel K., Patty Reed’s Doll, The Story of the Donner Party, Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1956, renewed 1984, reprinted Tomato Enterprise Edition, 1989. |
| Lienhard, Heinrich, From St. Louis to Sutter’s Fort, 1846, Translated and edited by Erwin G. and Elisabeth K. Gudde, University of Oklahoma Press,1961; Lienhard manuscript republished by the Southern Illinois University Press, New Worlds to Seek: Pioneer Heinrich Lienhard in Switzerland and America, 1823-1846, John C. Abbot, editor, (1999). Available online at the Library of Congress American Memory Collection |
| Limburg, Peter R., Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party, Ips Books, 1998. |
| Maino, Jeannette G., Left Hand Turn: A Story of the Donner Party Women, Jeannette Gould Maino, 1987. |
| Maslow, A.H., A Dynamic Theory of Human Motivation, 1958, In =DeMartino, C.L. & Stacey M. Understand Human Motivation, p26-47, Howard Allen Publishers |
| McGlashan, C.F., History of the Donner Party, 1881, Stanford University Press, 1940. Available online at Project Gutenberg. |
| McGlashan, C.F., re-created, re-edited, re-published by Badgley, C. Stephen, History of the Donner Party, A Tregedy of the Sierra, Badgley Publishing Company, 2010. Available online. |
| McLaughlin, Mark, The Donner Party: Weathering the Storm, MicMac Publishing, 2007. |
| Moongiant, December 1846, January 1847 Moon Phase Calendar |
| Morgan, Dale, Overland in 1846, Talisman Press, 1963, republished by Bison Book/University of Nebraska Press, 1993, volumes 1 and 2; includes map drawn by T.H. Jefferson, very accurate and detailed of entire Overland Route. |
| Mullen, Frank, The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-1847, Nevada Humanities Committee, 1997. |
| Murphy, Virginia Reed, Across the Plains in the Donner Party, Vistabooks, 1995, previously published Outbooks, 1980, originally published in Century Magazine, July, 1891. |
| Nel, Juan, Ninge & Goete, 2013 |
| Nevada Historical Society, Nevada Emigrant Trail Marking Committee, The Overland Emigrant Trail to California A Guide, 1975, Reno |
| Newell, Olive, Tail of the Elephant: The Emigrant Experience on the Truckee Route of the California Trail, 1844-1852 (California Sesquicentennial Publication) 1st Edition, Nevada County Historical, 1997 |
| Old Farmer’s Almanac, Weather History Archive. |
| Online Neveda Encyclopedia (one), Donner Party: List of Members. |
| On This Day, Historical Events in 1846. |
| Oregon~California Trails Association |
| Oregon~California Trail Association, Utah Crossroads Chapter, Crossroads Chronicle |
| Oregon-California Trail Association, Mapping Emigrant Trails Manual, Fifth Edition, June 2014 |
| Oudegeest, Bill, The Donner Party & Donner Summit, Heroism, Pathos, and the Human Spirit, William Oudegeest, 2019. Available online. |
| Oudegeest, Bill, What Do We Do Now?, Donner Summit Historical Society Newsletter, October, 2011 issue #38 |
| Parlor Songs – 1840’s, Music from the Morrow Collection. |
| Rarick, Ethan, Desperate Passage, The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2008. |
| Reed, James Frazier, The Journal of James Frazier Reed, July 31-October 4, 1846, Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1/4, West From Fort Bridger (January, April, July, October, 1951), pp. 186-223, University of Illinois Press |
| Rhoads, Dr. Earl, Maps of Emigrant Trail, Verdi, Nevada to Summit Valley, Cal. as marked and traced by P.M. Weddell of San Jose 1920-1952, addendum to Tahoe National forest (N.F.) Sugar Bowl Ski Resort Master Plan |
| Robie, Wendell T., Searls Historical Library, Nevada City, CA, 1935, A Centennial Year Proposal Concerning the Old Emigrant Road |
| Rosen, Daniel M., Donner Party Diary |
| Skinner, John H., Forest Supervisor, USDA, Forest Service, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Sugar Bowl Ski Resort Master Plan, Tahoe National Forest, 1992 |
| Steed, Jack and Richard, The Donner Party Rescue Site, published by the authors, 1991; the 1994 edition is updated with additional maps and information. |
| Stewart, George R., The California Trail, University of Nebraska Press, 1962. |
| Stewart, George R., Ordeal by Hunger, University of Nebraska Press, 1960, first published in 1936; 1960 edition contains a reconciliation of Stewart’s theories with the Miller-Reed diary and other materials not available in 1936. It also contains transcripts of Patrick Breen’s diary and Virginia Reed’s 1847 letter. |
| Stuckey, Mary, The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Western Expansion, George State University, ScholarWorks@Georgia State University, Communications Faculty Publications, Department of Communication, 2011. |
| Sutton, Amy K., Krashes, Michael J., Integrating Hunger with Rival Motivations, Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, vol 31, issue 7, July 2020, pages 495-507 |
| The Storm King, Donner Party Weather, MicMac Publishing. Available Online |
| Thorton, J. Quinn, Camp of Death: The Donner Party Mountain Camp 1846-47, Outbook, Inc., 1986. |
| Thornton, J. Quinn, Oregon and California in 1848, Harper Brothers, 1849. |
| Towle, Russell, North Fork of the American River blog, 2000-2008. |
| Trails West, Inc. Truckee Trail & Nevada City Road Driving Guide, From Humboldt Bar, Nevada to Johnson’s Ranch, California, Markers T-1 thru T-70 and NC markers NC-1/T-51 to NC-11/HP-17 |
| Unruh, John, The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60, University of Illinois Press, 1979. |
| U.S. Forest Service Trail of Tragedy: The Excavation of the Donner Party Site video, 1990. |
| Wallis, Michael, The Best Land Under Heaven, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. |
| Weddell, Peter M., Donner Summit Historical Society, Map of Historical Emigrant Trail, The Pony Express Magazine, 1849 |
| White, Tim D., Once Were Cannibals, Scientific American, vol. 285, no. 2 (August 2001), pp. 58-65 (8 pages) |
| Wikipedia, Starvation Response |
| Wikipedia, Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party |
| Wikitree, Donner Party. |
| Wikiwand, Donner Party. |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie Definitive Guide, Packing Your Covered Wagon – Little House Pioneer Activity |
| Wilson, Bill G., Challenging the Mountains, The Life and Times of Wendell T. Robie, Robie Historical Foundation, 1998. |
| Wilson, Norman L., Towne, Arlean H., Nisenan, pg 387-397, from Kincade, Kaitlin, senior interpretive service specialist, Maidu museum & Historic Site, City of Roseville, Nisenan material |
| Zeinert, Karen, ed. Across the Plains in the Donner Party, by Virginia Reed Murphy with Letters from James Reed, Linnet Book, 1996 |
