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California Donner Party Fosdick, Sarah Graves 1825-1871 Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Juvenile literature Overland journeys to the Pacific Pioneers Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) History 19th century Juvenile literature United States Sierra Nevada West United StatesFilter By Series
Deadly expeditionsBrown, Daniel James
Summary: A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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Summary: "In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in hopes of a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a tragic path. As they crossed the Sierra Nevada, heavy snow fell in the mountain pass. They were trapped. Supplies were already low, and now they faced a winter of starvation. Told through the gripping,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023