Question

How did Eliza P. Donner Houghton organize her autobiography?

Answer 1

The answer to this question would be the first option: She started when she was older and told the story going backwards.  So in Eliza P. Donner Houghton's autobiography, it appeared like a story being told starting from the first events that she and her family have encountered up to the very last. It was actually a written account about their tragic experiences being an emigrant in the year 1846 wherein they have experienced extreme starvation and suffering.