Ebook {Epub PDF} Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart

 · In eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter bltadwin.ru: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. by George R. Stewart. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across /5(7). Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party is an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance/5(4).

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