| History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): McGlashan, Charles Fayette (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409978311 ISBN-13: 9781409978312 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.71 lbs) 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Charles Fayette McGlashan (1847- 1931) was born in Wisconsin. He attended Sotoyme Institute, Healdsburg, California, from 1861 to 1865 and Williston Seminary in Massachusetts, 1868-1870. In 1878 a subscription to the Republican from a survivor of the Donner Party led to McGlashan's writing several articles on the subject. In 1879 History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra was published. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American emigrants caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846-1847, some of them resorted to cannibalism. |
