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Donner Party --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Voyages par terre jusqu'au Pacifique --- Donner Party
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Donner Party. --- Donner Party --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Overland journeys to the Pacific
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The story of the Donner Party remains one of the most tragic and compelling in pioneer history. Johnson gathers many rare early narratives detailing the participants' trying experiences into one of the most accurate accounts to date of this disastrous event.
Donner Party. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Donner Party --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels
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Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal.
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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Donner Party. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Tahoe, Lake, Region (Calif. and Nev.) --- Truckee Region (Calif.) --- Antiquities.
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Donner Party. --- Women pioneers --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Donner, Tamsen, --- Burton, Gabrielle --- Travel --- Family. --- West (U.S.) --- Description and travel. --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- History --- Burton, Gabrielle B. --- Baker, Gabrielle Diane Bridget --- Description and travel --- Voyages and travels --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Overland journeys to the Pacific
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"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains." In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million years of deep time to explore America's most spectacular and scientifically intriguing landscapes. He places us on the outcrops, rock hammer in hand, to examine the evidence for how these rough-hewn lands came to be. We see California and its gold assembled from pieces of old ocean floor and the relentless movements of the Earth's tectonic plates. We witness the birth of the Rockies. And we investigate the violent earthquakes that continue to shape the region today. Into the West's geologic story, Meldahl also weaves its human history. As we follow the adventures of John C. Frémont, Mark Twain, the Donner party, and other historic characters, we learn how geologic forces have shaped human experience in the past and how they direct the fate of the West today.
Geology --- West (U.S.) --- History. --- american geography. --- american history. --- american landscapes. --- american west geology. --- american west topography. --- california geology. --- california history. --- california topography. --- donner party. --- earth sciences. --- geoscience. --- gold rush. --- golden state. --- great plains. --- historical geography. --- history of the west. --- how the west was made. --- john c fremont. --- mark twain. --- nature and science. --- pioneer history. --- rocky mountains. --- science and geology. --- seismic tomography. --- tectonic plates. --- wanderlust. --- western mountains. --- western united states.
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"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.
Mormon handcart companies. --- Mormon pioneers --- Disaster victims --- Mortality --- Biometry. --- Donner Party. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Biological statistics --- Biology --- Biometrics (Biology) --- Biostatistics --- Biomathematics --- Statistics --- Burial statistics --- Death --- Death rate --- Mortuary statistics --- Vital statistics --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Victims of disasters --- Victims --- Pioneers --- Handcart companies, Mormon --- History --- Statistics. --- Sex differences. --- Statistical methods --- James G. Willie Emigrating Company. --- Edward Martin Emigrating Company. --- Martin Emigrating Company --- Martin Handcart Company --- Martin Company (Mormon pioneers) --- Willie Emigrating Company --- Willie Handcart Company --- Willie Company --- Handcart companies, Latter Day Saint --- Mormon handcart companies --- Latter Day Saint handcart companies. --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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