Desperate passage [[electronic resource] ] : the Donner Party's perilous journey West / / Ethan Rarick

• Autore: Rarick Ethan <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.4/37
• Soggetto topico: Donner Party; Overland journeys to the Pacific
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-279) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Characters; Prologue; I: Journey; II: Tribulation; III: Salvation; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Desperate passage
• ISBN: 0-19-771252-5; 1-281-16303-1; 9786611163037; 0-19-804150-0; 1-4356-3881-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778235703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II