History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra
- ISBN-10
- 0804703671
- ISBN-13
- 9780804703673
- Series
- History of the Donner Party
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1947
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Author
- Charles Fayette McGlashan
Description
Reproduces the 1880 edition of McGlashan's text, which chronicles the experiences of the Donner Party, a group of pioneers who set out from Springfield, IL in April of 1846 and encountered tragedy when they were trapped by a snowstorm in the Sierra mountains.
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- 2016-09-01
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- 2016-06-21
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