Special Edition Donner Party Trading Cards Published by EJ Gold; May 23, 2014.
The two most vital and memorable incidents in early California history are the Donner Party and the ’49er Gold Rush. I don’t even have to tell you what those are about. If you’re like most Americans, especially Californians, you’ll know.
I happen to be a member of the family known in California as “The Donner Party” and I have a number of Donner Party memorabilia that could well be instrumental in discovering what actually happened at Donner Pass. Was there cannibalism? Maybe these documents will tell the story; they’re waiting for historians to get hold of them, and maybe YOU could be the one to make that happen!
This collection of the UNPUBLISHED LONG-LOST DONNER PARTY PAPERS is perhaps the most important historical discovery related to early California history in this century, and is now available for sale to some lucky person. The collection is all original documents — and the collection includes many letters, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and other early photographs, magazine & newspaper articles, gold “California Fractionals” and other memorabilia which may solve many of the remaining mysteries related to the Donner Party Tragedy. Here’s a partial listing…