Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West (Audiocd)
by:
Ethan Rarick (author)
ISBN:
9781480563384 (1480563382)
Publish date: September 3rd 2013
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
Edition language: English
An excellent reportage of the travail of this doomed trek. All the where, when, who, why and how questions are, if not definitively answered, thoroughly analyzed. Some questions still today cannot be conclusively answered. Over the years opposing views have been voiced. Who were the real heroes, who...
It speaks well to the author's skill that I ignored my husband for hours and simply could not put this book down -- reading it in a single evening -- when I've known how the story ends since watching the Ken Burns special in junior high...and I'm 32 years old. The writing is superlative, especially ...
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