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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Wallis, Michael, 1945-     Subjects     Donner Party.     Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century.     Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.     Overland journeys to the Pacific.     Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.).     Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wallis, Michael, 1945-       by title:      The best land under ...       by call number:      978.02 W214b     Search the Web     Wallis, Michael, 1945-     Donner Party.     Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century.     Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.     Overland journeys to the Pacific.     Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.).     Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.       MARC Display

The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny / Michael Wallis. by Wallis, Michael, 1945- Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2017. Call #: 978.02 W214b Subjects Donner Party.   Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century.   Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.   Overland journeys to the Pacific.   Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.).   Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780871407696 (hc) 0871407698 (hc) Alternate title:  Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xx, 455 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Introduction: 1846 -- Prologue: Donner Lake, June 6, 1918 -- Call of the West -- A migrating people -- The best land under heaven -- Gray gold -- Snake heads -- California dreaming -- The bold plunge -- Wagons ho! April 1846 -- Farewell, April 14-15, 1846 -- Independence bound, April 15-May 10, 1846 -- The journey -- Queen city of the trails, May 10-12, 1846 -- Indian country, May 12-18, 1846 -- Soldier Creek, May 19, 1846 -- The others, May 20, 1846 -- People of the south wind, May 21-24, 1846 -- Alcove Spring, May 25-29, 1846 -- The rhetoric of fear, May 30-June 2, 1846 -- Ebb and flow, June 3-7, 1846 -- On the Platte, June 8-10, 1846 -- Life goes on, June 10-15, 1846 -- A letter from Tamzene Donner, June 16, 1846 -- The promised land -- Change of command, June 16-19, 1846 -- Chasing mirages, June 19-25, 1846 -- Sage advice, June 26-27, 1846 -- A sense of urgency, June 28-July 12, 1846 -- Parting of the ways, July 13-19, 1846 -- The Donner party, July 20-28, 1846 -- Betrayed, July 28-31, 1846 -- The Hastings cutoff, August 1-22, 1846 -- The fearful long drive, August 23-September 10, 1846 -- Race against time, September 11-October 4, 1846 -- Blood rage, October 5-20, 1846 -- Perseverance, October 21-30, 1846 -- Out of time -- Snowbound, November 1846 -- Desperate times, desperate measures, November-December 1846 -- The forlorn hope, December 1846 -- Camp of death, December 1846 -- The starving time, January 1847 -- In dire straits, January-February 1847 -- Man on a mission, January-February 1847 -- To the rescue, February 1847 -- The first relief -- The second relief -- The third relief -- The fourth relief -- Aftermath. Summary:  "In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. Now, celebrated historian Michael Wallis--beloved for his myth-busting portraits of legendary American figures--continues his life's work of parsing fact from fiction to tell the true story of one of the most embroidered sagas in Western history..."--Jacket. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 978.02 W214b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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