Brown, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BRO