The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny /

The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny / Michael Wallis.

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,&qu...

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Main Author: Wallis, Michael, 1945- (Author)
Other title:Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
Pioneers.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > History > 19th century.
California.
United States > Sierra Nevada.
United States, West.
History.

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Call Number: F868.N5 W36 2017
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