Searching for Tamsen Donner (University of Nebraska Press)


"Searching for Tamsen Donner is audaciously ambitious and utterly original. Gabrielle Burton, back in the day, was one of our country's most dedicated first-wave feminists, mother of five children, and wife to an endlessly tolerant husband. Decades ago, obsessed by the life of Tamsen Donner, Burton bundled the lot of them into a station wagon and retraced that doomed pioneer's footsteps--across our great plains and up into the treacherous mountains, where, with so many of the Donner party, Tamsen met her tragic end. This memoir combines--successfully!--domestic, historic, and mystical concerns that bind together our brave but heartbreakingly fragile nation. It's just a terrific read."

--Carolyn See

Gabrielle Burton is 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. Her writing has appeared
in publications such as the New York Times
and the Washington Post. She lives in Venice,
California.

Searching for Tamsen Donner (Hardcover)

By Gabrielle Burton

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9780803222854
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Published: University of Nebraska Press, 3/2009

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Heartbreak Hotel (Paperback)

By Gabrielle Burton, Burton Gabrielle

$13.50

ISBN-13: 9781564781673
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Published: Dalkey Archive Press, 7/1999

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