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Autore |
Rarick Ethan <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Desperate passage [[electronic resource] ] : the Donner Party's perilous journey West / / Ethan Rarick |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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0-19-771252-5 |
1-281-16303-1 |
9786611163037 |
0-19-804150-0 |
1-4356-3881-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Donner Party |
Overland journeys to the Pacific |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-279) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Characters; Prologue; I: Journey; II: Tribulation; III: Salvation; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westwardmigration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over theSierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gatheringforce. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and childrenwould be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and onlyprimitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year,the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes ofhuman surviv |
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