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The Donner Party / a Steeplechase Films production ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WNET/Thirteen ; written and directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns.
LIBRA DVD 002 017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Donner Party.
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--History.
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.).
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS DVD Video : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2000]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Chronicles the tale of the pioneer journey that set out for California in the spring of 1846 and ended in disaster in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains the following winter.
- Participant:
- Host, narrator, David McCullough.
- Notes:
- Originally broadcast in 1992 as a segment of the PBS television series The American experience.
- ISBN:
- 0780641299
- OCLC:
- 51459147
- Publisher Number:
- B8802 PBS DVD Video
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