donner party

Chronicles the true accounts of a group of pioneers that became known as the Donner Party, and their harrowing experience trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846.

Revolutionary War spy, Nathan Hale, tells a hangman and British officer the story of the Donner Party, a doomed wagon train traveling from Illinois to California in 1846.

Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.

Tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of travelers who set out from Independence, Missouri in 1846 for California, but became trapped in a snowstorm in the Sierra Mountains, resulting in the deaths of many people, and forcing the others to resort to cannibalism to survive.

Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.

A wooden doll recalls the hope with which a group of pioneers begins their journey and the ordeals they face as they travel from Springfield, Illinois, to California.

Relates the ordeals faced by a group of pioneers on theri journey from Illinois to California in 1846.

Tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of emigrants who left Missouri in 1846 in search of a better life in California, but whose decision to take what they believed to be a short-cut led to disaster. Presented in graphic novel form.