It was in his cabin that, after losing all her loved ones, the heroic Tamsen Donner met her end.

Many thought he killed her for the one horrid purpose.

* * Many years later (1879) Keseberg declared under oath to C.F.
McGlashan that he did not take her life.

See "History of the Donner" Party, pp.

212, 213.
Such then is the story of one of the great emigrant parties who started West on a hazard of new fortunes in the early days of the Oregon Trail.