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Searching for Tamsen Donner Donner Party mail and freight haulersTamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 184647. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsens story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a womans life writ large, one whose impossible balancing of self,