Monthly, The Heirloom reviews books that have to do with Donner Summit's history or the history of the local area. The pages linked here are to the reviews taken from the Heirloom. All of the books have at least some relevance to the Donner Summit area.

We used to have all of our book reviews on one web page but once we got to about 125 we decided to divide them up by topic. If you are looking for Donner Party books those will be under "Emigrants" naturally. There are quite a few so you might want to search that page for "Donner".

"Videos" has films and videos where Donner Summit appeared in some fashion - i.e. movies. "Miscellaneous" has a collection of various books on Donner Summit. There are both primary and secondary sources. Some of those 19th Century books are interesting views into life in the old days. "Emigrant" book reviews have some really good quotes from emigrants about Donner Summit.