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001 ocm08081193
003 OCoLC
005 20200806205118.0
008 820121s1980 coua 000 0 eng d
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035 $a(OCoLC)8081193
050 4 $aF868.N5$bM8 1980
082 04 $a978.402
100 1 $aMurphy, Virginia Reed,$d1834?-
245 10 $aAcross the plains in the Donner Party :$ba personal narrative of the overland trip to California, 1846-47 /$cby Virginia Reed Murphy ; with illustrations by Fredric Remington and others.
260 $aGolden, Colo. :$bOutbooks,$c©1980.
300 $a64 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aEdited by William R. Jones.
500 $a"This is her story, recalled 45 years later at the request of the editor of Century, a national magazine of that day, and reprinted here with the original illustrations and some additional ones."
505 8 $a"The author, Virginia Reed, age 12, left Springfield, Illinois, the bright spring morning of April 14, 1846, with her family plus 25 fellow emigrants, their wagons, oxen, horses, and all worldly possessions... In November, her party tried to cross the Sierra Nevada of California, but the snow was already too deep and they made camp on the shore of Donnor Lake to await their fate. As a result, 13 of those who started with her from Springfield, and 29 more who joined her along the way, never did cross those mountains. This is her story, recalled 45 years after the tragic event, when she was a woman of 56 and a mother of six children, residing in San Jose, California. It was written at the request of Robert Underwood Johnson, then an editor for the national magazine Century, and published in 1891 as part of a series of first-person articles done by those who had made Western American history" -- Editor's pref.
600 14 $aMurphy, Virginia Reed.$4dfd
650 0 $aDonner Party.
650 7 $aDonner Party.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00896860
650 7 $aDonner Party.$2fssh
651 7 $aUnited States, West.$2fssh
029 1 $aFHL$b(UtSlFS)577337
994 $aZ0$bP4A
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