The book "The Story of the Donner Expedition: A Tragedy in the Sierra" was written by Charles Fayette McGlashan and reveals the terrible events that happened to the Donner expedition in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The author examines in detail the journey of this group of people, who found themselves in the clutches of terrible winter conditions, where hunger, disease and despair were constant companions. With the help of his own notes, letters and reports of the Centrifugal Documentation, McGlashan recreates the events that became one of the most famous cases of tragedy in American history. This book impresses with its careful coloring of events and leaves the reader thinking about survival and the depth of the human soul in critical situations.