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Desperate passage : the Donner Party's perilous journey west / Ethan Rarick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rarick, Ethan, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Donner Party.
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on fresh archaeological 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 and their unimaginable ordeal.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Characters; Prologue; I: Journey; II: Tribulation; III: Salvation; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771252-5
- 1-281-16303-1
- 9786611163037
- 0-19-804150-0
- 1-4356-3881-6
- OCLC:
- 476241119
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