Desperate Passage The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

Name: Desperate Passage The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
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ISBN: 9780195305029

ISBN-10: 0195305027

ISBN-13: 9780195305029

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ethan Rarick

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In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth. Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent…

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.10" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Prologue



Jumping off



Catching Up



Vexatiously Slow



Pleasure Trip



Fine Style



The Crucial Decision



Gambling



A New and Interesting Region



Unearthly



One Bad Hill



Abandoned



The Mouth of Hell, The River of Life



A Great Snowy Range



This Prison



The First Death



The Forlorn Hope



A Low Situation



Taking the Field



Our Present Calamity



Fellowbeings



From California, or Heaven?



Threshold of Desperation



Weeping



Gruesome Sights



Terror, Terror



A Broken Promise



Alive Yet



None for Tears



The Last Man



A Beautiful Country



A Day of Renown


Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Notes


Selected Bibliography