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“Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert,...
The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert,...
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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Drawing on fresh archeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party--ninety pioneers who became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47-- and their unimaginable ordeal
4) Old bones
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
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2019.
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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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Nora Kelly novel volume 1
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2022.
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Español
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Crimen, canibalismo, una expedición maldita y un misterio enterrado en el tiempo. Preston & Child inauguran una irresistible serie que mezcla arqueología, historia, crimen y suspense. La joven arqueóloga Nora Kelly recibe una extraordinaria propuesta: liderar un equipo en busca del llamado «Campamento perdido» de la expedición Donner. Su misterio se remonta a 1847, cuando un grupo de pioneros quedó atrapado en las montañas de California...
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier. “An ideal pairing of talent and material. Engrossing. A deft and ambitious storyteller.” Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review. In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later,...
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Another fan-favorite Hazardous Tale gets BIG! This special edition of Donner Dinner Party features a larger trim size, a deluxe package, and 16 pages of bonus material, including research photos, sketches, and mini-comics from the author. The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history, but it s also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the US, and the families and individuals who sacrificed...
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