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"A retelling of the fate of the Donner Party, with a Walking Dead style twist"--
Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it was a...
3) Old bones
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
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Distributed by Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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A wealthy and proud woman of Chiago, Margaret Reed unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party-- a group of pioneers making their way to California by covered wagon in the summer of 1846. One by one the odds begin to stack against Margaret and her family as precious days slip away and an early winter storm closes the passes through the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Trapped without adequate foor and supplies, Margaret struggles to keep her...
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003
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IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.
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