Snow Mountain Passage: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0375411038
- ISBN-13
- 9780375411038
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- James D. Houston
Description
Depicts the hardships, tragedy, and devastating starvation that confronted the Donner party, which became trapped by winter snows in the Sierra Nevadas, through the eyes of James Frazier Reed and his eight-year-old daughter, Patty.
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