That just sounds hideously boring, but then I read Houston's Snow Mountain Passage and was completely converted. Now I want to go to the Donner Museum next time we are that way...This book is about the "Donner Party." The historic plot requires that he track different parties operating at once. April 24th 2002 Her father is banished from the group of travelers and makes it across the mountains before the rest are snowed in.
Set just a couple of years before the Gold Rush, the story includes a wild cast of characters, most of all Jim Frazier Reed and his decision to move his family from a prosperous farm in Illinois to the unknown and far off land of California.
They got snowed in so he spent month helping California gain it's independence. I really love this genre of books called historical fiction, like "In Sunlight, in a beautiful garden." The story line alternates viewpoints between James's desperate efforts to rescue his beloved family and through the six-decade-old memory of one of his daughters looking back to the disaster.
Through the eyes of James Frazier Reed, one of the group's leaders, and the imagined "Trail Notes" of his daughter Patty, we journey along with the ill-fated group determined, at all costs, to make it to the California territory.
A real page turner even knowing more or less what the outcome would be. The best parts are when one of the survivors, many years later, recants what happened during those long, long months. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. For the safety of all of Snow Mountain's guests, only park-provided tubing equipment is allowed. If I had no idea of what the Donner Party was while reading Snow Mountain Passage, I would have just figured that it was one fantastic fictional tale of settling the American West.
But they think everything has tThis book is about the "Donner Party."
Prices do not include tax. My stress level increased. Rescue parties he mounts are turned back again and again by blizzards. I really love this genre of books called historical fiction, like "In Sunlight, in a beautiful garden."
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They have been following the sandy borders of the Platte through level country that changes little from day to day, an undulating sea of grasses broken here and there by clumps of trees along the river. But this long trek hindged on a travel guide written by a man who made the new trail by horseback and with no family, then spreads his joyful news on how to reach a new land quicker and faster than ever known, California. Her father is banished from the group of travelers and makes it across the mountains before the rest are snowed in. Really powerful and moving for me because some of what you read may have, could have happened to real people. Welcome back. You also get to read about a pristine California when San Francisco was known as Yerrba Buena before being renamed and the Mexican-Spanish War gaining momentum for one last struggle before California becomes part of The United States. It's a fictional account of the Donner Party. I read this book because I saw the author's obituary and he sounded like an interesting guy. My Mom “loved it” and there was a note to return it to her, so I persevered to see what she loved. Also, the author is local. Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of our most dramatic pioneer story--the ordeal of the Donner Party. As she looks back, the series of mistakes, bad choices and personality clashes lead to a tragic ordeal that has become a well known American pioneer story.
The covers of the book advertise this book as the story of the Donner Party, which it is in the beginning and end of the book. What those people went through in search of the Promised Land in the East! This is a well written piece of American history and does not dwell on the more ghoulish aspects of the story.The author became interested in her story after he discovers he lives in her house in Santa Cruz CA many years later.This book is told in two different ways.
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