The Donner Party
- ISBN-10
- 1545750432
- ISBN-13
- 9781545750438
- Series
- The Donner Party
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-02-10
- Publisher
- Mitchell Lane
- Authors
- Susan Sales Harkins, William H. Harkins
Description
Tells the story of a group of California bound American settlers who set out in the spring of 1846and became snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas during the winter of 1846 and 1847.
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