Product Description: A great adventure.A haunting tragedy.An enduring love.In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her husband, George, their five daughters, and eighty other pioneers headed to California on the California-Oregon Trail in eager anticipation of new lives out West...read more

The hardships, tragedy, and devastating starvation that confronted the Donner party, which became trapped by winter snows in the Sierra Nevadas before they can make their way into California, are seen through the eyes of James Frazier Reed and his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. By the author of Continental Drift. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. There, where the water flowed west to the far Pacific, the more prudent emigrants swung north through present-day Idaho, though that was the longer way west. One group, the Donner Party, braver or more foolhardy than the rest, chose an untried route that would shorten the distance. It did. It also subjected them to obstacles so formidable that it cost many of them their lives. Yet it preserved their names and the story of their travail down through history-crowded years. No work of fiction has rendered this remarkable epic of ordeal with more vividness and power than Richard Rhodes's novel of the Donner Party, The Ungodly.Upon its initial printing in 1973, Rhodes's masterful tale was praised for its realistic and gripping depiction of the struggles faced by that ill-fated group of men, women, and children. Now, more than thirty years later, Stanford University Press has reissued this harrowing and haunting novel. The Ungodly is an unforgettable story of terrible hardship and awesome courage—a story that increases our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full and immeasurable price they paid.

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.

Patty Reed, a member of the Donner party traveling west to California in 1846, describes the hardships of the journey, the dangerous winter weather that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and their rescue in February of 1847.

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.

The hardships, tragedy, and devastating starvation that confronted the Donner party, which became trapped by winter snows in the Sierra Nevadas before they can make their way into California, are seen through the eyes of James Frazier Reed and his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. By the author of Continental Drift. 50,000 first printing.

Recounts Lovina's journey as she joins the Donner Party on their wagon train to California, not expecting to fight for survival through Indian attacks, snowstorms, and steep mountains. (view table of contents)

Kansas State Reading Circle Choice 1996-1997 This is the true story of twelve-year-old Virginia Reed, who, along with her family, faced and survived incredible hardships on an overland journey to California. In the spring of 1846, the Reed and Donner families left Springfield, Illinois, traveling by ox-drawn wagon. Along the way, they joined with other caravans bound for Oregon and California and were midway through their journey when they learned of another route; a shorter, better route, they were told. But what they were told wasnt exactly the truth. After much discussion, most of the wagons went on, keeping to the old, established road. Twenty wagons, including the Reed and Donner wagons, turned off onto the new road. Almost from the beginning they ran into trouble. First they literally had to chop their way through a densely forested range of mountains. Then they crossed a desert where many oxen and several wagons were lost, and as they traveled, summer slipped away into fall. It was late October when they began climbing the last obstacle before themthe high Sierra Mountains. Winter had set in early in the Sierras that year and soon deep snow made further travel impossible. Exhausted, frightened, and discouraged, they erected crude shelters and spent the winter in the mountains. This story chronicles the events as they happened. Only the dialogue has been invented. This is a girls true-adventure story of survival against the forces of Nature!

A chilling story of the shocking and terrifying ordeal of the Donner party describes the desperate struggle for survival of a wagon train of courageous pioneers, who became trapped by harsh weather in a rugged mountain pass. Original.

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.

A fictional account of the tragic expedition of the Donner Party focuses on the courage and determination of one woman, Tamsen Donner, as she and the other pioneers struggle for survival through the bitter Sierra Nevada winter of 1846