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050 00 $aF593$b.G74 2017
082 00 $a978/.02$223
100 1 $aGrayson, Donald K.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSex and death on the western emigrant trail :$bthe biology of three American tragedies /$cDonald K. Grayson.
264 1 $aSalt Lake City :$bThe University of Utah Press,$c[2017]
300 $axv, 246 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAn introduction to sex, death, and disaster -- "A great lamentation about the cold" : a brief history of the Donner Party disaster -- Predictions of death -- "A curious feature of the disaster" -- "The heavens weep" : the Willie Handcart Company -- "Cruel beyond language" : the Martin Handcart Company -- Gendered death?
520 $a"During the winter of 1846-1847, members of the Donner Party found themselves stuck in the snows of the Sierra Nevada on their journey to California, losing many in their group to severe cold and starvation. Those who survived did so by cannibalizing their dead comrades. Today the Donner Party may be the most famous group of American overland emigrants to struggle through life-threatening conditions, but it is not the only one. Ten years after the Donner Party got itself into trouble, two groups sponsored by the Mormon Church ran into similar difficulties. Unlike the Donner Party, these people were following a well-traveled path, but they were doing it in a novel way, pushing and pulling their goods and children in handcarts some 1,300 miles from Iowa to Utah. In the end, over 200 died along the trail. The plights of these travelers have been addressed by different historians in different ways. This book is the first to examine these tragedies in terms of biology. Grayson shows that who lived and who died within these westward-bound groups can largely be explained by age, sex, and family ties. His investigation reveals what happens when our cultural mechanisms for dealing with famine and extreme cold are reduced to only what our very bodies can provide. These were real people in real danger. Understanding what happened to them helps us get at the core of who and what we all are"--Provided by publisher.
610 20 $aJames G. Willie Emigrating Company.
610 20 $aEdward Martin Emigrating Company.
650 0 $aOverland journeys to the Pacific.
650 0 $aDonner Party.
650 0 $aBiometry.
650 0 $aMortality$xSex differences.
650 0 $aMortality$vStatistics.
650 0 $aDisaster victims$zWest (U.S.)
650 0 $aMormon pioneers$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMormon handcart companies.
610 27 $aEdward Martin Emigrating Company.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00735593
610 27 $aJames G. Willie Emigrating Company.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00735592
650 7 $aBiometry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00832611
650 7 $aDisaster victims.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00894774
650 7 $aDonner Party.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00896860
650 7 $aMormon handcart companies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01026290
650 7 $aMormon pioneers.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01026296
650 7 $aMortality.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01026502
650 7 $aMortality$xSex differences.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01026523
650 7 $aOverland journeys to the Pacific.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01049347
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
651 7 $aUnited States, West.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01243255
648 7 $a1800-1899$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aStatistics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423727
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGrayson, Donald K.$tSex and death on the western emigrant trail.$dSalt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2017]$z9781607816027$w(DLC) 2017041871
852 00 $bglx$hF593$i.G74 2017