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Author McNeese, Tim.

Title The Donner Party : a doomed journey / Tim McNeese.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Young Adult Non-Fiction  YA 979.4 McN    ---  Available
Description 146 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Series Milestones in American history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-140) and index.
Contents The Stevens Party -- A vision looking west -- Wagons to California -- The first "Donner Party" -- Progress on the trail -- A badly advised road -- Tragedy at every turn -- The taboo -- "Do you come from heaven?" -- Nightmare's end -- Lives of the survivors.
Summary Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.
Source NBK 10/9 PPLY
Subject Donner Party.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9781604130256 (lib. bdg.)
1604130253 (lib. bdg.)

 
    
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