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The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate (Paperback)
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The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate (Paperback)
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List price R574
Loot Price R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
You Save R84 (15%)
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George and Tamsen Donner and their children, among the very first
to leave from Illinois, joined emigrants headed to California in
the spring of 1846. Beyond Fort Bridger, Captain Donner led a large
party through a much-advertised shortcut. Delays and difficulties
caused them to be snowbound in the High Sierras, facing the grim
specter of starvation and extreme suffering. Though only four years
old at the time of the expedition, the captain's youngest daughter,
Eliza Donner, would never forget the excitement of crossing the
prairies--or the horror of that winter. Details impressed on her
young mind were later substantiated by the recollections of her
older sisters and other survivors. Her book, originally published
in 1911, is an intimate and authoritative account of the Donner
disaster. George and Tamsen Donner and those who shared their fate
are fully humanized in the telling. Eliza also relates what
happened to her and a sister after being rescued and what it was
like to grow up in a world that turned the Donners into a grisly
legend.
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