THE UNGODLY: A Novel of the Donner Party.
by Rhodes, Richard
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription on half title page, price-clipped, one closed tear along fold, dj now in ar/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0333128397
- ISBN 13
- 9780333128398
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About This Item
New York:: Charterhouse,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription on half title page, price-clipped, one closed tear along fold, dj now in archival cover).. First edition. In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies - "The Donner Party, braver or more foolhardy than the rest, chose an untried route that would shorten the distance. It did. It also subjected them to obstacles so formidable that it cost many of them their lives. . . It is the story of indomitable men and women in their bleakest hour - a story that increases our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full and immeasurable price they paid." 371 pp. Map endpapers. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.
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- Title
- THE UNGODLY: A Novel of the Donner Party.
- Author
- Rhodes, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good dust jacket (gift inscription on half title page, price-clipped, one closed tear along fold, dj now in ar
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333128397
- ISBN 13
- 9780333128398
- Publisher
- Charterhouse,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1973)
- Keywords
- california, western americana, wagon trains,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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