Palace Wagon Family: A True Story of the Donner Party

by Margaret Sutton

Overview

The Donner party is the name given to a group of emigrants, including the families of George Donner and his brother Jacob, who became trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846-1847. Nearly half of the party died, and some resorted to eating their dead in an effort to survive. The experience has become legendary as the most spectacular episode in the record of Western migration.
This is a story about the ordeal that the Donner Party faced on their trek to California. This story is told from Virginia Reed's (Patty's older sister) point of view, and is a tale of indomitable courage on the American frontier. The book portrays the theme of how families had to work together to overcome the many struggles of day to day life on the wagon trail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787207424
Publisher:	Papamoa Press
Publication date:	07/31/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	134
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

MARGARET SUTTON (January 22, 1903 - June 21, 2001) was the pen name of Rachel Beebe, one of America's best loved authors of books for young people, including the Judy Bolton Series of mystery books, of which 38 volumes were published between 1932 and 1967. She also wrote several books in the Gail Gardner series, The Magic Maker series, as well as a number of picture books, travel and historical books and short stories.
Born in Odin, Pennsylvania to Victor L. Beebe, a historian, musician, and carpenter, and Estella Andrews Beebe, Sutton grew up in Coudersport, near the New York State border, and attended Rochester Business Institute in New York to become a stenographer. After graduating she worked as a secretary in a printing office and later taught creative writing to adults, many of whom themselves became published authors.
In 1924, she married William Henry Sutton, with whom she had five children, and began her writing career when she started writing stories to entertain her step-daughter Dorothy. In 1932 Sutton published her first book, The Vanishing Shadow, which tells the story of a girl named Judy Bolton who solves mysteries.
Sutton published a religious education curriculum, "Letters to Live By, which was taught in churches across the country. She and her husband William founded the South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Freeport, N.Y. Additionally, Sutton was an activist, in social causes such as fair housing and participated in the historic "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" in 1963.
She passed away in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania in 2001 at the age of 98.

Born in Odin, Pennsylvania to Victor L. Beebe, a historian, musician, and carpenter, and Estella Andrews Beebe, Sutton grew up in Coudersport, near the New York State border, and attended Rochester Business Institute in New York to become a stenographer. After graduating she worked as a secretary in a printing office and later taught creative writing to adults, many of whom themselves became published authors.
In 1924, she married William Henry Sutton, with whom she had five children, and began her writing career when she started writing stories to entertain her step-daughter Dorothy. In 1932 Sutton published her first book, The Vanishing Shadow, which tells the story of a girl named Judy Bolton who solves mysteries.
Sutton published a religious education curriculum, “Letters to Live By, which was taught in churches across the country. She and her husband William founded the South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Freeport, N.Y. Additionally, Sutton was an activist, in social causes such as fair housing and participated in the historic “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” in 1963.
She passed away in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania in 2001 at the age of 98.