The Breens of the 1846-47 Donner overland party to California : a revisionist view of the Donner party saga, with a critique of George R. Stewart's Ordeal by hunger : typescript, 1992.

Stewart, George R.

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Breen, Patrick, approximately 1805-1868

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Patrick Breen was born in Ireland circa 1805. In 1828 he emigrated to Canada and some time thereafter moved to Iowa territory, where he became the owner of a farm. In about 1831 he married Margaret (maiden name unknown). Breen was naturalized in 1844. In the Spring of 1846, the Breen family joined a party of emigres bound for California. The party's ill-fated journey across the Sierra Nevada Mountains was partially documented in the diary Breen kept while stranded in a mountain camp at Donner (t...

King, Joseph A., 1925-

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