The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017].
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Book
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First edition.
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xx, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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An account of the 1846 Donner-Reed expedition reveals the true events surrounding the tragedy, profiling the adventurous characters who shaped the group and how various interpersonal factors led to their harrowing experiences.
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"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 optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. Now, celebrated historian Michael Wallis -- beloved for his myth-busting portraits of legendary American figures -- continues his life's work of parsing fact from fiction to tell the true story of one of the most embroidered sagas in Western history ..."--Jacket.

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