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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New York :
Penguin Workshop,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- What Was the Donner Party?
- Westward Ho!
- Jumping Off
- Forts, Friends, and Foes
- The Hastings Cutoff
- Into the Mountains
- Snowed In
- Relief Parties
- History Remembers.
