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"Snow Mountain Passage is a retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories - the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve.".
"The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children - in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed - proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father - traveling with his family in the Palace Car, a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in style, the stage is set for trouble.
And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover - a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms.".
"Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens - who dies, who survives, and why - is brilliantly, grippingly told."--BOOK JACKET.
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Snow mountain passage: a novel of the Donner Party
2001, Harcourt, Inc
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Snow Mountain passage: a novel of the Donner party
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