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Author : John R. Signor
Release : 1985
Genre : Donner Pass (Calif.)
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Book Synopsis Donner Pass by : John R. Signor
Download or read book Donner Pass written by John R. Signor. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lansford Warren Hastings
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 451/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California by : Lansford Warren Hastings
Download or read book The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California written by Lansford Warren Hastings. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Author : George R. Stewart
Release : 2023-11-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 253/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Opening of the California Trail by : George R. Stewart
Download or read book The Opening of the California Trail written by George R. Stewart. This book was released on 2023-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.
Author : Edwin Bryant
Release : 1849
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis What I Saw in California by : Edwin Bryant
Download or read book What I Saw in California written by Edwin Bryant. This book was released on 1849. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Wallis
Release : 2017-06-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by : Michael Wallis
Download or read book The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny written by Michael Wallis. This book was released on 2017-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award A Publishers Weekly Holiday Guide History Pick “A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down.... Superb.” —New York Times Book Review "WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" 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. With The Best Land Under Heaven, Wallis has penned what critics agree is “destined to become the standard account” (Washington Post) of the notorious saga. Cutting through 160 years of myth-making, the “expert storyteller” (True West) compellingly recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate. Interweaving information from hundreds of newly uncovered documents, Wallis illuminates how a combination of greed and recklessness led to one of America’s most calamitous and sensationalized catastrophes. The result is a “fascinating, horrifying, and inspiring” (Oklahoman) examination of the darkest side of Manifest Destiny.
