Across the Plains in the Donner PartyThe Donner story, in which eighty-three pioneers were snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California in 1846, is a prime example of the hardship faced on the road west. |
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Contents
No Living Thing Without Wings | 67 |
May God Send Help Soon | 75 |
Afterword | 103 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Across the Plains in the Donner Party |
| Authors | Virginia Reed Murphy, James Frazier Reed |
| Editor | Karen Zeinert |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Linnet Books, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 24, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0208024042, 9780208024046 |
| Length | 112 pages |
| Subjects | › › Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General |
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