I just finished reading "Give Me a Mountain Meadow" by M. Nona McGlashan (1977), her story of Charles F. McGlashan (her father) who is best remembered as the author of "History of the Donner Party", published in 1879. It was the first history and considered the true story of the Donner Party - he was a newspaper editor and owner of the Truckee Republican, a lawyer (his last case was successfully getting my greatgrandfather off from a charge of murder in 1912 in Truckee), scientist (the butterflies displayed at the Nevada County courthouse are his collection, inventor (he invented the display cases the butterflies are displayed in) and helped get the Pioneer Memorial at Donner Lake erected in 1918. Chapter 8 in her book is all about how he came to write the newspaper articles that lead to the book. There's an index to "Give Me a Mountain Meadow" that I could post - it includes surnames etc. from his life beginning in New York 1847 and ending in Truckee in 1931. Colleen Norby