Download or read book The Donner Party written by George Keithley and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the three or four finest book-length American poems ever-written.”—Poetry First published in 1970, The Donner Party is the story of a wagon train, led by George Donner, which set out from Springfield, Illinois, in 1846, headed for California. George Keithley’s restrained and vivid narrative poem is a harrowing portrait of a group that was pushed to extreme measures in order to survive.