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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