Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of The Donner Party Donner Party and it includes mouthwatering innovations

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With a history in the Sierra Nevada stretching back 9000 years they are the oldest tribe in California

as they were pushed first to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of The Donner Party Donner Party and it includes mouthwatering innovationsAward winning author George R. Stewart's history of the Donner Party is compulsive reading a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of horrifying episode in the history of the west" (Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty seven people men, women, and children set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route.