What Was the Donner Party?
Author: Hubbard, Ben
ISBN: 9780593520741
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 05 Dec 2023
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The notorious true story of a group of pioneers forced to make impossible decisions when trapped in the mountains for an entire winterP#8212;part of the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The notorious true story of a group of pioneers forced to make impossible decisions when trapped in the mountains for an entire winterP#8212;part of the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures...including cannibalism. Theirs is a story of miscalculations, bad decisions, and extreme weatherP#8212;but itP#8217;s also a story of survival and bravery among everyday people.
ISBN: 9780593520741
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 05 Dec 2023
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The notorious true story of a group of pioneers forced to make impossible decisions when trapped in the mountains for an entire winterP#8212;part of the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The notorious true story of a group of pioneers forced to make impossible decisions when trapped in the mountains for an entire winterP#8212;part of the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures...including cannibalism. Theirs is a story of miscalculations, bad decisions, and extreme weatherP#8212;but itP#8217;s also a story of survival and bravery among everyday people.
