What was the Donner Party?
"In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather,...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Workshop,
2023.
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| Summary: | "In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures . . . including cannibalism. Learn about the many miscalculations, bad decisions, and extreme weather that led to the demise of nearly half of the Donner Party in this book for young readers about one of California's first major disasters"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 106 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
| Audience: | Ages 8-12 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 106). |
| ISBN: | 9780593520741 0593520742 9780593520758 0593520750 |
| Author Notes: | Tim Foley's clients have included national and international magazines, book publishers and advertising agencies, such as The Wall Street Journal, Cricket Magazine, Barrons, New York Newsday, LA Weekly, Penguin Books, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and the Chronicle of Higher Education. |
