The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
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The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
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- The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
- Title remainder
- the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Wallis
- Title variation
- Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
- Subject
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- Donner Party
- Electronic books
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- History
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Pioneers
- California
- Pioneers -- West (U.S) -- History -- 19th century
- Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev) -- History -- 19th century
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Sierra Nevada
- United States, West
- Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century
- Donner Party
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- An account of the 1846 Donner-Reed expedition reveals the true events surrounding the tragedy, profiling the adventurous characters who shaped the group and how various interpersonal factors led to their harrowing experiences
- "In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. Now, celebrated historian Michael Wallis--beloved for his myth-busting portraits of legendary American figures--continues his life's work of parsing fact from fiction to tell the true story of one of the most embroidered sagas in Western history..."--Jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 978/.02
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F868.N5
- LC item number
- W36 2017eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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