From time to time our historical society newsletter reviews books that have to do with Donner Summit's history or the history of the local area. These are reprinted on these web pages.

 

Reviews

Emigrant Trails	Coast to Coast by Automobile pioneering trips 1899-1908
Indifferent Stars Above	Empire Express
Look of the Elephant	PBS Home Video Transcontinental RR
So Rugged and Mountainous	From Longboards to the Olympics
To Donner Pass from the Pacific	Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making of America
Truckee's Trail	Waiting for the Cars
The Plains Across The Overland Emigrants the Trans-Mississippi West 1840-60	What I Saw in California (1846)
Assembling California	Ancient Rock Carvings of the Central Siera (Donner Summit area)
Hard Road West	The Martis: Ancient Tribe of the Sierra Nevada
Old Greenwood	Tail of the Elephant (Emigrant Experience 1844-52)
A Great and Shining Road	Sierra Crossing First Roads to California
High Road to Promontory
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