Searching for Tamsen Donner

Tamsen Donner Reincarnated?

Gabrielle Burton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Impatient With Desire, Tamsen Donner, Searching for Tamsen Donner, Donner Party, Books News
Gabrielle Burton

These days I get two questions a lot. The first: Do you think you're Tamsen Donner reincarnated? The long and the short answer to that is Nope. Why...

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Donner Party: Did They or Didn't They?

Gabrielle Burton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Impatient With Desire, Tamsen Donner, Trapped in Sierra Nevadas, Pioneers, Appalachian University Study, Donner Party, Kristin Johnson, Cannibalism, Searching for Tamsen Donner, Alder Creek Digs, 1846, Gabrielle Burton, Patrick Breen, Media News
Gabrielle Burton

Of the 81 pioneers trapped in the mountains, a little over half survived. Even if it were provable that no one turned to cannibalism, why do people today care so much whether they did or didn't?

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Heroic Mothers: Tamsen Donner, Gabrielle Burton and Jodi Picoult's Latest

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Impatient With Desire, The Donner Party, Jodi Picoult, Westward Migration, Memoir, House Rules, Searching for Tamsen Donner, Motherhood, The Oregon-California Trail, Feminism, Gabrielle Burton, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

Three very different portraits of motherhood are presented in Jodi Picoult's House Rules and Gabrielle Burton's Impatient with Desire and Searching for Tamsen Donner; what all three books have in common is a vibrant portrayal of mother as hero.

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