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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-06 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing

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Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award A Publishers Weekly Holiday Guide History Pick “A book so grippin
Desperate Passage
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Authors: Ethan Rarick
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-04 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountain
The Donner Party Chronicles
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Frank Mullen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: a Halycon

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The Reno Gazette-Journal and the Nevada Humanities Committee present Frank Mullen's account of the Donner Party, accompanied by hundreds of historical illustrat
Ordeal by Hunger
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“Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Th
The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California
Language: en
Pages: 157
Authors: Lansford Warren Hastings
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Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guid