The Donner Party

By Roger Wachtel

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

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.