The Donner Party

By Roger Wachtel

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Political science, Biography, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Frontier and pioneer life, Donner Party, Wilderness survival, Survival, Pioneers, Political science, juvenile literature

Description: Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.