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Author Wallis, Michael, 1945- author.

Title The best land under heaven [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny / Michael Wallis.

Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York Liveright 2017 Available via World Wide Web.
Summary 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. Now, celebrated historian Michael Wallis—beloved for his myth-busting portraits of legendary American figures—continues his life’s work of parsing fact from fiction to tell the true story of one of the most embroidered sagas in Western history.
Subject Donner Party.
Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
Added Title Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny
ISBN 9780871407702 (electronic bk.)
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