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Ordeal By Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
by Stewart, George R
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Revised and Enlarged edition with a supplement and three accounts by survivors. Crisp and unmarked, NF/VG. Full cloth binding. 394pp. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and in a new mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
Synopsis
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, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.
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- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 068279
- Title
- Ordeal By Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
- Author
- Stewart, George R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
- Keywords
- Western Crossing Sierra Cannibalism
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