The best land under heaven the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this o...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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