What Was the Donner Party? by Ben Hubbard - ISBN: 9780593520741
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Pioneers trapped! Mountain snows! Survival tested by unthinkable choices.

What Was the Donner Party?

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    5 December 2023

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Summary

The notorious true story of a group of pioneers forced to make impossible decisions when trapped in the mountains for an entire winter.

In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining peo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780593520741
ISBN-10:0593520742
Author:Ben Hubbard, Tim Foley, Who HQ
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:5 December 2023
Weight:128g
Dimensions:194mm x 135mm x 7mm
Series:What Was?
About The Author

Ben Hubbard

Ben Hubbard is an accomplished nonfiction author for children and adults with over 130 titles to his name. He has written about many subjects, including space, the samurai, and sharks, to poison, pets, and the plantagenets. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in libraries around the world.

Tim Foley’s clients have included national and international magazines, book publishers and advertising agencies, such as The Wall Street Journal, Cricket Magazine, Barrons, New York Newsday, LA Weekly, Penguin Books, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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